Quotes About Inspiration

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.