Quotes About Inspiration

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

I can't say that music ever made me do anything.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.