In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

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