Inspiration Quotes

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it

What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

Inspiration Unlimited is more than an e-Magazine. I would rather call it an alchemy of learning and inspiration. It really inspires many people in many ways.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Thank you Prince for all of your inspiration and sharing your increadible talents with the world. You will be incredibly missed.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

My greatest inspiration had come from messages delivered through spirit sources, who seemed to guide my every step.

For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.

Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

I get inspiration everywhere - by my friends, my family, and mostly love.

Inspiration is everywhere! I think you just have to have your eyes open.

All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.

Did you tell freedom hello for me?

The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Information doesn't mean a thing to people without inspiration.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.