Quotes About Inspiration

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

This shall hence become my music.

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Music is interior decoration.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.