Inspiration Quotes

• So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Energy
  • Relationship
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Inspiration
  • Record
  • Postcards

• I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • God
  • Heart
  • Song

• In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Opportunities
  • Female
  • Governor

• I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Advice
  • Voice
  • Industry

• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Artists
  • Rock And Roll
  • Hall of Fame

• 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fun
  • Wonder
  • Musician

• It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Nature
  • Attitude
  • Mystical

• I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

  

  Mark Barrowcliffe
  • Up
  • American
  • Beginning

• The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Inspiration
  • Election
  • John Kennedy

• Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

  

  Connie Smith
  • Inspiration
  • Excites

• I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Effort

• One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

  

  Boris Vian
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Important
  • Dad
  • Mentor

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

  

  Chris Brown
  • Inspiration

• I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

  

  Rain
  • Inspiration
  • Source
  • Tune

• What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • World
  • Singer
  • First-Born

• 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.

  

  Christopher Judge
  • She
  • Mother
  • Proud

• I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Model
  • Creative

• From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Design
  • Perspective
  • U.S.

• I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

  

  Laz Alonso
  • House
  • Design
  • Home Depot

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