David First Quotes

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

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• I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams
  • Who

• In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • English
  • Inspiration
  • Meaning

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Look
  • Philosophy

• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

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

  

  Larry Niven
  • Inspiration

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Literature
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Inspiration
  • Mysterious
  • Blessing

• If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Plumber

• It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Waste

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Storyteller

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Choices
  • Inspiration
  • Joni Mitchell

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• ...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Waiting

• Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Law
  • Inspiration

• 'The Brownies and the Goblins' is the only book I recall from my early childhood and is the inspiration for a children's book I wrote in the 1980s titled 'The Magic Spectacles.'

  

  James Blaylock
  • Book
  • Childhood
  • Inspiration

• I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

  

  Chris Brown
  • Inspiration

• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Selfishness

• It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Important
  • Church

• The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

  

  David First
  • Inspiration
  • Tradition
  • Jazz