Quotes About Inspiration

Music is catharsis for me.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I can't act without music very well.

Music is kind of my everything.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.