Inspiration Quote by Ernest Newman

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart…

— Ernest Newman

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

— John Philip Sousa

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about…

— Raymond Queneau

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

— Salvador Dali

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a…

— Swami Vivekananda

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

— John Cage