Quotes About Inspiration

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.