“To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.” WritingLittlesMomentsStoriesInspirationWantedExerciseShapesDancingGreat Moments Author:Lorrie Moore
“Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!” WayKindDreamInspirationWantedSidesTalkingRevolutionYour Side Author:Paul Goodman
“Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.” KindInspirationWantedFeltSituationPiecesWrittenApproachToughAverageWork OutDrawingOccasionsBoardsSeatsBossPantsWaltBatting Author:Richard Sherman
“In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.” ThinkingIdeasInspirationWantedArtistTermCommunityTypeImpression Author:Laura Owens
“I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.” SaidInspirationWantedFatherGrowing UpGrowingBrotherEthicsSellingMy BrotherYardsWork EthicChipsCookiesBananas Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody . . . That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.” IfsWayWantTryingFirstsMadeInspirationWantedNightGirlMy OwnCreativeShareSoloBe Creative Author:K-Maro
“Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.” DoeTwoHelpingInspirationWantedLyingFictionNovelWrittenTroubleBrotherThirdsContemporaryBrothers And SistersContemporary FictionSofasMutteringSalinger Author:K. M. Soehnlein
“Abbie Hoffman's inspiration was, in a sense, inadvertent. I wanted to do something to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock at the time, and it just happened that Abbie died the same year. Hoffman was always an inspiration to me, for his activism and execution of that activism, and any of his books will give you a guide and a map to creating almost anything, if you apply it to what it is you want to do.” IfsWantGivingYearsBookInspirationWantedHappenedCreatingDiedGuidesActivismCelebrateMapsExecutionWoodstock Author:Richard Cotovsky
“I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.” FirstsFeelingsInspirationWantedRememberStuffTypeProjectsInspiredMoodRemember WhenNew OrleansCreole Author:Rodney Jerkins
“DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.” FirstsMadePlayMomentsInspirationWantedHeardTrackTonightThat MomentOlympicsDjs Author:Martin Garrix
“With Erin [from Paper Girls], I wanted to show what she might look like when she's 40, and I wanted it to feel authentic. In terms of inspiration I ended up using my wife for a lot of it. Just to kind of to give me almost an anchor so that I would be invested in making this character real.” GivingFeelsLooksKindRealCharacterShowsInspirationMightWould BeWantedGirlTermWifePaperGive MeMy WifeAnchorsErin Author:Cliff Chiang
“I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting that through Patti [Smith] - because she takes pictures, performs, writes; she does so many things, and that was a big inspiration to me. It helped me realized that I'm not just a fashion photographer. I wanted to do all these other artistic things as well, and during filming my mind opened up to those possibilities.” WritingMindWellsDoeBigsInspirationWantedTogetherFilmFashionPossibilityPhotographerArtistic Author:Steven Sebring
“I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.” PeopleWantPlayDreamInspirationWantedGuyTownsGuitarSmall Town Author:Kerry James Marshall