The Muse Quotes
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.
Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.
I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.
I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.
It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.
I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse.
