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Quotes About Inspiration

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.
~ Lester Bangs
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
~ Corita Kent
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.
~ Pierre Boulez
I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.
~ Eddie Vedder
If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.
~ Perrie Edwards
Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.
~ Elliott Smith
Play and write music the way you want the world to be.
~ Wayne Shorter
music became my refuge and then my salvation.
~ Lena Horne
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
~ Buddy Guy
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
~ Georges Bizet
No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.
~ Michael Jackson
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
~ Lukas Foss
It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
~ Anton Bruckner
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
~ Herb Alpert
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
~ A. R. Rahman
More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.
~ Ciara
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
~ Shania Twain
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
~ Brother Ali
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
~ George Gershwin
Music reminds us that the universe loves us
~ James Taylor
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
~ Richard Wagner