John Keble Quotes

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

There are so many artists that have inspired me.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever.

Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.

I would say films inspire me more than the makers.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I dunno - it's like, again, Juice was super big for me in terms of inspiration, and I learned a lot from him in terms of his recording process and stuff like that.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.