Quotes About Inspiration

Dem Manne muß die Musik Feuer aus dem Geist schlagen.

Is it not beautiful?

La música es el vino que inspira nuevas creaciones y yo soy Baco que prensa este delicioso vino para los hombres y los embriaga espiritualmente

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

El genio se compone del dos por ciento de talento y del noventa y ocho por ciento de perseverante aplicación

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.

If people never did silly things, then nothing intelligent would ever get done.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

On the day before classes were supposed to start, Mama took me out to dinner. "You're destined to do small great things," she told me. "Just like Dr. King said." She was referring to one of her favorite quotes: If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.

Writing is successful schizophrenia because I'm paid to hear voices in my head.

True, I'd never met him. And true, he was a fictional character. But he also was what people needed him to be: a dashing hero, and articulate peacemaker, a cunning excape artist.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.