Book Quote by Ikue Mori

Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin…

— Bradley Joseph

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's…

— Burt Bacharach

That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to…

— Jimmy Page

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other…

— Frank Dukes

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

— Jay Rock

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial…

— Billy Joel

I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I…

— Charli XCX

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come…

— Stone Gossard

When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology,…

— Yanni

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman