Quotes About Inspiration

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Music is another planet.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.