Quotes About Inspiration

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I only write when listening to the music.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.

All music comes from God.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.