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Quotes About Inspiration

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.
~ Chris Cunningham
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.
~ Hans Zimmer
I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.
~ Tom DeLonge
I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.
~ Mark Hall
Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.
~ Ingrid Michaelson
I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.
~ Jason Newsted
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
~ Kenneth Noland
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
~ Joseph Joubert
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
~ Nelly Furtado
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
~ Dexter Gordon
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
~ Ronnie Wood
Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!
~ Miranda Lambert
Music is the pathway to the heart.
~ Voltaire
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
~ William Christopher Handy
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
~ Carson McCullers
I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.
~ Jason Aldean
Songs are more powerful than books.
~ Elvis Costello
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
~ Annie Lennox
For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.
~ Shane Filan
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
~ Jerry Cantrell
The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.
~ William Henry Ogilvie