Quotes About Inspiration

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

Worship the music, not the musicians.