You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.
Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.
Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.
Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.
Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it. . . we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!
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.
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.
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
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.
I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.
It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.
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!