Quotes About Inspiration

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Only one music comes out of me.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I think that music has an endless life.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.