Quotes About Inspiration

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

no man is ever a complete failure. He can always serve as a horrible example!

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

One general is wearing a bright red cape, and the other asks him why such an outfit on a day of battle. 'Because, if I'm wounded, my troops won't see the blood, and they'll fight on.' The first general thinks about it and calls to his aide, 'Fritz, bring my brown trousers.

Chrissy turned to me, leaned over, and gave me a peck on the cheek. "What's that for?" I asked. "For being a man I can look up to without lying on my back.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow – just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they right it down. It's simple.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet.

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

Mentorship lead to greatness in others!

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

It takes a special, ironic kind of person to use their own impending death as an impetus to finally live.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.