Quotes About Inspiration

Life can begin at eighty, but you don't need to wait that long.

I could only use the formula I knew. Which was, you call a song 'China Girl', it better sound Asian. You call a song 'Let's Dance', you damn well better make sure people dance to it.

Judy's in the bedroom, inventing situations.Bob is on the street today, scouting up locations.They've enlisted all their family.They've enlisted all their friends.It helped save their relationship,And made it work again.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

We don't make music - it makes us.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

What begins as a random walk often ends up taking you somewhere, somewhere that you later realise was exactly where you wanted to go.

Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry—banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.

Still, making music is its own reward.

I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative.

Yale, pointed out that once you let yourself see things this way, lots of things become "musical scores"—although they might never have been intended to be played.

The dead guys won't write more symphonies.

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

where music is heard can determine the sort of music created by the artists who perform there.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves. It's powerful stuff.