Quotes About Inspiration

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

I got country music in me.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.