Paul Weller Quotes

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.

Artists have always been my biggest source of inspiration.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's inspired by them - versus another person saying they redid your song.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

I probably get most of my inspiration through music.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

I have been a huge, huge fan of music ever since I was a kid. Anything to do with music inspires me.

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

There are a lot of people who wonder why Japan is a pretty consistent influence in my music, and I think it's because the reason I started writing - my intro to electronic music was Japanese music.

I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

I don't really listen to contemporary R&B with an ear for hearing my influence. Music is a spirit unto itself, and all of us musicians influence each other all along the chain.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.