#ira

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#any #attitude #back #came #different

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#desirable #make #music #people

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#dressed #drove #good #hair #i

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#god #inspirational #religion #inspirational

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#inspirational

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#writing #inspirational

Thoughts become things. ↗

— Mike Dooley

#art

Chaos is another name for opportunity ↗

— I-Ching

#inspirational

Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca) ↗

— Marcus Annaeus Seneca

#inspirational

There's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for. ↗