Quotes About Inspiration

Human beings write stories, and read them, for the same good reason: to live

The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

People say, "You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll be finished, they'll have nothing to live for." That's rock and roll!

Judging by the faces of those around me, just the fact of Roger speaking to me meant that my life could very well change.

The Artist's Way

Writing touches the unconscious in a way that talking does not. It gets beyond the old, to the truth of the real stories within.

there's something else, something quite beautiful.

When we reclaim our enthusiasm for life, we are drawing closer to God, becoming more spiritual.

A successful leader must lead by example.

Washington could not have called on his men to be such authentic Christians, if he was not trying to be such a Christian as well.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.