George Murray Quotes

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.