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I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?
As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.
Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.
I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up
I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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.
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
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.
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
Like Muse and Linkin Park, we are also striving to be the one and only to create a new genre called BABYMETAL. We hope to be as cool as them.
The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
Some musicians are a bit humourless about their art: they lose sight of the fact that as well as exercising their muse, they're there to entertain.
Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.
The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
The Muse should be a trusted destination for answers. A hand when you need one. Someone to talk you through tough decisions or situations. A starting point.
When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.
How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.
When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!
I was a massive fan of AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Muse - I went to see all of them live. B.B. King, Chuck Berry, I love Ray Charles. I just like a bit of everything.
When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.
I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.