Quotes About Inspiration

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.