#inspire

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. ↗

— Frank Black

#chord #even #first #first thing #get

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#book #day #feeling #i #i think

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#also #around #brothers #hendrix #i

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? ↗

— Laura Dern

#artist #deeply #express #how #inspired

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#ethic #farmers #food #generations #harvest

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#documentaries #filmmaking #inspired #me #narrative

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#basis #clinton #entirely #fact #in fact

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#beyond #consciousness #does #extraordinary #go

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop. ↗

— Peter Facinelli

#am #back #career #contrasting #dexter

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#decades #downright #easier #either #haiti