Quotes About Inspiration

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

Music's another big love of mine.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.