Quotes About Inspiration

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, like it's not going to happen.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.