Quotes About Inspiration

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.