Quotes about Inspiration
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
— John Lennon
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
— St. John Chrysostom
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
— CS Lewis
Music is the 5th gospel.
— Martin Luther
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
— CS Lewis
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
— Thomas Merton
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
— Oscar Wilde
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
— Albert Einstein
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
— Joseph Addison
After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
— Martin Luther