Famous Inspiration Quotes - Famous Quotes about Inspiration
I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Then something happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I found myself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came into my head -- they just seemed to fall into place...
- Thomas A. Dorsey
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Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
- Giacomo Puccini
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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
- Franz Liszt
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
- Aaron Copland
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
- Benjamin Cardozo
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
- Cole Porter
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
- Johannes Brahms
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
- Ernest Newman
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
- Benjamin Britten
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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!
- Judy Collins
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Ronald Reagan
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
- Johannes Brahms
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