Quotes About Inspiration

But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.