Quotes About Inspiration

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.