Quotes About Inspiration

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

I've been a Michael Jackson fan ever since I can remember listening to music. I love his music.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.