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Quotes About Inspiration

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
~ Don McLean
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~ Jerry Hall
After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
~ Martin Luther
You can never stop discovering music.
~ Rashida Jones
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
~ Leonard Bernstein
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
~ Madame de Stael
I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
~ Brian Wilson
The music is everything to me.
~ Frankie Knuckles
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
~ Gerald Massey
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
~ Clarence Clemons
Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.
~ Ella Henderson
Music is actually where I see heaven.
~ Emmanuel Jal
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.
~ Paul Banks
If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.
~ Pepe Romero
Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.
~ Rihanna
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
~ Bobby McFerrin
I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
~ Norah Jones
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.
~ Bill Bruford
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
~ John Philip Sousa
Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
~ Sir Arthur Sullivan
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
~ Alban Berg
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
~ Andrew Eldritch