Quotes About Inspiration

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

For me, music begins where words end.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

There is no such thing as happy music.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?