Quotes About Inspiration

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.