Quotes About Inspiration

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

Music isn't only a profession.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.