Inspiration Quotes

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

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