Quotes About Inspiration

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.