#insp

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#any #been #better #catch #country

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#because #bible #i #inspired #inspires

The very air in which you live is an inspiration. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#inspiration #live #very #which #you

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done. ↗

— Robert Moog

#done #driven #everything #i #i think

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#between #bit #explore #forth #get

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#books #bottom #bottom line #compose #create

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#ashamed #confusion #equal #excitement #fear

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#contributing #fame #fun #get #i

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.' ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #before #connor #expressing #i

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#angels #being #complicated #demons #edge