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Quotes About Inspiration

There is a great correlation between music and images.
~ Graham Nash
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
~ Ellie Goulding
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
~ Miles Davis
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
~ Steve Lacy
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
~ John Philip Sousa
The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.
~ Leopold Stokowski
Music is one big thing to me.
~ Pat Metheny
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
~ Joan Baez
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
~ Frantisek Kupka
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
~ Edie Brickell
The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
~ Dionne Warwick
Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.
~ George Lois
When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.
~ Albert Hammond, Jr.
I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'
~ Jonathan McReynolds
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
~ Anton Corbijn
I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.
~ Drake
We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
~ Ziggy Marley
Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.
~ William Fitzsimmons
If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
~ James Hetfield
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
~ Joni Mitchell
I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.
~ Susan Stroman
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
~ George Santayana
I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.
~ Anthony Burgess
To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.
~ Paul Rodgers