Quotes About Inspiration

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music chooses her musicians.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Close your eyes and let music set you free.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.