Inspiration Quotes

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

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!

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.

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.

I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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 am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

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.

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.