"I'm just here to make music that I love, and I think I'm upholding a good message, you feel me?"
"Paul was inspired to write the song after reading about how The Who's 'I Can See For Miles' was their loudest, most raucous song yet."
"Music and this instrument is such a source of joy for me that every choice I make I want to reaffirm that feeling."
"He slid across the music and lyrics of Tick, Tick... Boom! to me across the table at lunch."
"It's a universal thread not abandoning your hopes and dreams for the future and not giving up."
"I'm working on a new album with Pete Rock and um just the energy of that music whether it's brand new beings or A Tribe Called Quest De La Soul because they they just got their music on streaming it's been like inspiring to hear."
"The Beatles are literally always number one. I mean, they're just huge inspirations in the music world."
"I'm just working trying to inspire people, you know, trying to make the best music possible."
"Our goal is to literally open up the world of music for you all to see."
"Brandy's album inspired a whole new generation of singers."
"Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, I'm happy to say that this campaign, 'Castile in A to Z,' has been a success."
"Introducing the smoky nightclubs of Harlem, Kerouac finally found the music that stirred his soul."
"It's all about love for me, there is nothing really that I like to sing about that doesn't have to do with love or relationships."
"I love that goddamn Kendrick 'We gon be all right'... like that's me on the hook."
"Twilight Princess music drew on Eastern European and modern styles."
"Tyler the Creator cited Pharrell's 2006 debut solo album 'In My Mind' as the inspiration that led him to co-found the Odd Future Collective."
"I listen to all the old shit from the 80s. Let me make some shit that I want to hear."
"I'd be kind of lost if I didn't have the music to chase."
"It speaks to me on a very high level which is really important when I play a guitar."
"Who are you getting the vocals from? Maybe Etta James, Minnie Riperton, Fantasia."
"It's like breathing... there's a tune playing in my head and I'd have the urge to sing."
"All my love paid tribute to the joy that Karac gave us as a family."
"Eric became driven to master the music he heard from the states, from the likes of blues man Big Bill Broonzy."
"You motivate me to drop a banger, man. So thank you, bro."
"Different versions popped on I thought wow this is pretty amazing that people are inspired and and doing these cover songs now it's great that's amazing okay."
"I saw a video of a five-year-old girl playing Chop Suey by System of a Down on the drums and I was like, 'Man, yeah, that's... She's my biggest inspiration.'"
"Tripping off the psychedelics, kind of like when I'm rapping, you took an acid tablet."
"Pumped first of all Adele's single has been playing on repeat and has inspired the eyeliner look."
"If you are genuinely interested and genuinely curious in music, the inspiration will come back."
"Bob Marley's childhood was marked by poverty and social unrest, deeply affecting his music and commitment to social justice."
"I think my music inspires a lot of individuals in the trenches because I come from them and it gives them a lot of motivation to either get up out of them or keep doing what the [__] they doing to try to get up out of them."
"The desire to be on stage come[s] from Michael Jackson. I wanted to make music."
"Because when I got into this album at the age of about 13 it just completely opened my mind to what music could sound like."
"As guitar players, we can't help ourselves, and by that, I mean we just have to know what tools did Gilmore use to find the inspiration for these songs that still play in the corners of our mind."
"Life totally different... so then when money start coming back and I start making more money... I just realized I was actually really meant to be rich."
"We just wanted to sing and we wanted to play and we wanted to be like the Beatles or the Stones."
"Records like this [Discovery] inspire more concept records in dance music."
"Travis Barker is definitely, by far, my biggest [expletive] little traffic inspiration, yep. That dude is probably my top, for sure."
"When I heard your music for the first time, I wanted this my whole life."
"But I got a lot more music in me. I got a lot more life in me."
"Without [__], my music went way better because I'm telling real life stories."
"I think we all, all of us in pop music, kind of take a little piece of Britney with us wherever we go."
"What was it for you, whether it was a song, an album, even something you heard on the radio, and a concert that kicked open the door and made you want to pursue music?"
"We're never going to have another one like him, but we can definitely keep his memory alive, champion his music, being inspired by his music, learning to play his music."
"I gotta take it back to Michael Jackson and that's who I'm really inspired by sorry there'll never be no one greater."
"Inertia is my new favorite beatboxer after this, he's so good, he sounds so good, he inspired me like a lot of new techniques that I have to learn just because of him."
"This is music, yeah, this is inspiration, yeah, I can see where this is going to work."
"Whenever I've recommended to one of my students that they do this even if they're not very well trained or they or they don't understand music theory just playing along on an instrument it always leads to some sort of inspiration."
"When you talk about discussions, I always remember years ago, early days of the Beatles, and John came in with a song with a record, he said, 'I want you to play like this,' and we played it."
"Linkin Park's dedication to every single little aspect inspires other bands that they should equally be as concerned about all the minor details."
"One or two basses you really love will get you way more inspired and motivated to practice than a whole menagerie of meh basses."
"You reached out to them because you loved their music. That's what gave you the desire, 'Oh, I have to record these guys because what they're doing musically is awesome.'"
"Phil lynott the ultimate front man he's gifted us with a song that raises us up and turns our souls up to 11."
"The reason I do music is because I want to chase those goosebump moments."
"This piece of music was inspired by the hope in adventure that was embodied in Kepler."
"The game-changer for me was seeing Prince in Purple Rain at 13 or 14."
"This is a tune I think I might finish this."
"He takes so many experiences and makes them into music."
"Just make the beat take you away, there's a word as a wave if you really want to do it, man. Just [ __ ] the tourists and the resources, you'll figure out that too."
"What I do, my original music, was all formed during these years of maybe from about 1968 to 1978."
"Music is the concepts that you write about, what's going on in life, what you're doing. When I keep hearing everybody else and [__] just, that's what you came up with."
"If you watch some videos of Chris Thile, he'll inspire you to just do your best at whatever you're doing."
"I love to play guitar because it does inspire me to write and to do things."
"Rizza, the Abbott of the Wu-Tang, had tried to emulate past Legends of the music industry."
"I chose the song 'All of Me' by John Legend. The meaning behind the song for me is that you're leading up to the Olympics, it's giving all of me."
"That's always very nice to hear how inspiring that the energy of how every musician was talking to each other was just profound."
"I have an incredible urge to go listen to more of Mac's music."
"J Cole with Nas, yeah. I think the Nas thing could work with J Cole because that's his inspiration or whatever. So he'll feel super amped to do it."
"That's where I got my first little musical influence as an artist."
"I hope this reaches the ears of the young audience, the little girls who grow up playing classical music and see that they can one day be in a studio like this and make any kind of music they want."
"All you need is love, and the Beatles did that, and I always wished that something like that was to happen now."
"That is so cool. It sounds like... like when the Beach Boys would drop paper clips onto piano strings."
"Really being able to bring in those external sounds is what's so inspiring to me."
"That was what I wanted to do, I wanted to do what they were doing."
"I find myself just wanting to play because it's such an inspiring sound."
"I need to play the DJ Khaled... and we hope it gives you inspiration as well."
"For composers like me, the unique quality of bells and the music played on them is an endless source of fascination and inspiration."
"The intensity with how he hits the note... that's the stuff that made me want to play guitar."
"What a great, great kind of Deep Purple/Uriah Heep inspired guitar and organ riff rocker that is."
"I have not met one guitarist that has not been inspired by him."
"Music is something that essentially for Quill was the driving force."
"I was so inspired by the atmosphere, the sound, just the music, the feeling I got when I went there."
"If you talk to any guitar player that hit their professional stride in the 80s or 90s, Ace Frehley from Kiss is the reason why they started playing guitar."
"I hope it's inspired some of you to get into your arpeggio playing."
"If music be the food of love, then play on."
"It makes me want to cry, it's a relief and it's very satisfying to hear somebody say that your music actually inspires them."
"It inspired me to play a little bit differently than I normally do."
"It's a great way to get into a true '50s Les Paul."
"Each band they saw, each note that resonated with them, served to cement their resolve to create something of their own."
"She's been an inspiration to me her and Whitney Houston my whole life."
"I love a good musical reference; this design is actually inspired by the music of Ludovico Einaudi."
"I started singing 'Be-Bop-A-Lula' and I said, 'You know, that didn't sound too bad. I could probably do this kind of music.'"
"I love black women, and that's why I made this song."
"It's just a really fun, inspiring drum set to play."
"When I heard that, I wanted to play the trumpet, and it was great."
"In the course of 10 minutes, the variety and wealth of inspiration that just clobbered me on the way to school was something that I thought would always be present in pop music."
"There's so much history of music; there's no reason why you shouldn't borrow from the past and bring something back."
"Perfect for creativity, hey man, let's start a band."
"Ever since she was a child, Taylor was very interested in riding horses and competing in rodeos, which developed her interest in country music."
"It's a really fun and inspiring instrument to play with."
"I'm learning a lot of songwriting by the way from listening to BTS and breaking this down."
"I love hearing the way that he thinks, his lyrics are always so inspiring."
"Hearing that music is what piqued my interest in drums and that's what lit the fire, so to speak."
"If I could pick any musician to talk to and jam with, I would pick Jimi Hendrix."
"I remember being musically sparked off by Chuck Berry... but the first rock and roll thing that really turned me... was 'Baby Let's Play House' by Presley."
"Some of the greatest music is like a reaction to something else."
"Influenced by Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Queen, George Michael, Peter Gabriel, U2... there's nothing wrong with Queen."
"It's a wonderful time despite all of the crazy stuff going on, to be alive and to love and relish and be inspired by our musical artists."
"If Elvis can do it, I can do it; if the Everly Brothers can do it, Paul and me can. Same with Bob Dylan."
"It was one of the best times in my musical career, just being around all that creative energy."
"Sweeney's men awakened something in me; I was just blown away by the sound."
"Listening to other bands' great records just makes you want to make another great record."
"It's no surprise I love this pedal like so many other people; it is instantly inspiring."
"I take my cues a lot of times not so much from other drummers but from other instrumentalists."
"It's inspiring to see him break through with his own music."
"It's a really fantastic tool for just stumbling across new ideas or kick-starting inspiration perhaps if you're stuck for a pattern or a phrase or a progression."
"I think the artists that are timeless now are inspired by music that sounds like that."
"You start playing guitar because you want to play a specific song."
"Music all comes from a place of that kind of confidence."
"I got this from Dire Straits... so I liked that sound, it was sort of in my head, and so that's where that came from."
"That was the moment that I met the song and I heard the song for the first time."
"Fill the world with music, go and practice and play today."
"When I first heard Amy Winehouse, that's when I first said, 'This is what a voice can do to your soul.'"
"There's drummers and then there's drummers that you hear that make you want to play drums."
"God gave us a gift of being in our music and being, He would just come through our music."
"It feels crazy to write a waltz for the 'I want' song, but it unlocked as soon as I decided to just let me write this very specific Colombian form."
"Some of the most inspired music I've ever heard by The Grateful Dead with special guests."
"Everybody is looking for the next song, and to have a keyboard where you can say, 'Okay, I want to find a rhythm that will suit Forever in Blue Jeans or Patricia,' that's brilliant."
"Part of finding your own voice on the guitar is playing what inspires you and then transforming it into something that is your own."
"He looked down at me, leaned down, and whispered, 'Son, you play guitar?' and I said, 'Yeah.'"
"Maybe you're motivated by Debussy's beautiful 'Clair de Lune'."
"One of the great thrills of doing a show like this is being able to sometimes meet some of my musical heroes."
"It's fresh and the only way I'll describe this keyboard is one of those instruments where you want to just keep playing and keep playing and it's inspirational."
"Tom Petty met Elvis Presley and he would later say that that day changed his life forever."
"When you first started, what was the gateway that got you into music?"
"What inspires you to write music? Is it sadness, happiness, broken heartedness? All things."
"We were trying to do something like that Curtis Mayfield vibe on top of it."
"Just go back and listen to their music and listen to those albums, and that should be enough to inspire you and kind of motivate you with those ideas and those sounds."