Ken Hill Quotes

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.

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.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.