Quotes About Inspiration

Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.

The following day I abandoned my pointless searching and planted myself in one of the open air-cafés where I drank coffee and tried to find inspiration for the song I owed the Maer. Ten hours I spent there, and the only act of creation I accomplished was to magically transform nearly a gallon of coffee into marvelous, aromatic piss.

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer.

But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too.

Además, la rabia puede calentarte por la noche, y el orgullo herido puede alentar a un hombre a hacer cosas maravillosas.

La música existe para cuando nos fallan las palabras. (Kvothe)

But instead, she simply walked through the walls. She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free.

This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally

El orgullo herido puede alentar a un hombre a hacer cosas maravillosas

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me. Pat Rothfuss

Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold.

Sit your ass down and write.

Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

She smiled and was suddenly young again. "How does it feel to know where you are going?

Y la forma en que sujetaba el arpa entre sus piernas me hizo pensar en... bueno, en las cosas en que piensan continuamente los muchachos de quince años.

Aquella noche se me ocurrieron diez mil cosas que habría podido decirle.

If one student in ten had half his fire I'd teach with a whip and chair instead of chalk and slate.

Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.

It's amazing how much easier it is to think productively when your belly is full.

A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.

A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.