Ricky Skaggs Quotes

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.

The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.