Quotes About Inspiration

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

Music is what I do; Christ is why I do it.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

I've been loving music all my life.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it