Quotes About Inspiration

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.