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My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
Jonny Lang

For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.
Victoria Legrand

Change, Time, Good

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
Dan Simmons

Write, Getting, Writer

I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
Flo Rida

Time, Write, Means

I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.
Tulsi Gabbard

Life, Country, Others

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.
Daryn Kagan

Important, Space, Creating

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.
Moon Bloodgood

Change, Same, Keep

'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
Caitlin Rose

Fun, Old, Write

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

Work, Nature, Important

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.
Terry Zwigoff

Today, Pay, Motivated

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.
Kim Elizabeth

Heart, Done, Write

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
Ne-Yo

Everything, Thought, Else

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
Brad Delson

Band, Fellow, Possessed

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
James H. Douglas

Work, Food, Respect

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
Colson Whitehead

Movies, Become, Write

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
Colson Whitehead

Science, Movies, Become

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.
David K. Shipler

True, Cannot, Free

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Time, Play, Tell

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
Greg Bear

Life, Friendship, Happy

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph A. Cram

Character, Evil, Against

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.
Roy Harper

Give, Rather, Making

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
Rob Morrow

Best, Hope, Society

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
Otis Rush

Time, Thought, Play

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
Pat Conroy

Movies, Become, Kids

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
Denise Morrison

Father, Big, Wanted

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
Ben Savage

Music, Sometimes

I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.
Nickolas Ashford

Good, Great, Nothing

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
Navid Negahban

Chaplin, Charles, Harold

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
Kathe Kollwitz

Religion, Power, Whether

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
Didi Conn

Teacher, Famous, School

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