Quotes About Inspiration

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.