Inspiration Quotes

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.