Quotes About Inspiration

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Listen to and sing the music of heaven.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.