Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Muse. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Muse Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including Stephen King,Leonora Carrington,Samuel Richardson,Kristin Hersh,Will Self for you to enjoy and share.

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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
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I didn't have time to be anyone's muse ... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
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Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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Missing: my muse. If found, please return.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
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I kept reaching for my muses,
my wandering muses, floating
on clouds filled with their passions.
(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)
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I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.
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I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
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But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
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Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.
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You're the world's muse, Trixie."
"I just want to be your muse."
"Done.
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Because the Muse persists.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if you're not with the person. It requires so much of each other, you have to be in love with each other.
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Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize.
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Be someone's muse.
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
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My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
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I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
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The Muse honors the working stiff.
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Disaster is my muse.
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Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.
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I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?" Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.
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My muse must come to me on union time.
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Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.
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My Muse sits forlorn
She wishes she had not been born
She sits in the cold
No word she says is ever told.
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If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?
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Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
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Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
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Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.
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Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.
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True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.
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Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.
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The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
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First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.
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But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!
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You can only use someone for so long before you dry them out. How long does a muse last? When do you let them loose?
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Muses have bullwhips and aren't afraid to use them, just sayin
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File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.
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Her name was Lark and she was my muse.
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A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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No writing? Your muse isn't speaking to you?'
'She rarely does. International cell charges and whatnot. Besides which, she's flighty and nearly impossible to understand. And she says I always misinterpret her intentions.'
'Muses. What can you do, right?
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In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.
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When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
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I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
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My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore ...
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
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Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
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If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, Wake up and write the book!
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You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.
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Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?
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The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
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You want to write? Write.

Don't wait for the muse. Write.

Just plant your butt in a chair and write.
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For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
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My muse has more projects on her wish list than I have hours in the day to write. #authorproblems
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Music is love in search of a voice.
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Sing, Muse, of high, moulded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers!
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When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
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Music is my release.
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I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang around is to show you could be having fun without her.
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I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.
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Musicians have blocks, just like writers do. You'll find your muse again.
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[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet.
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My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
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The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.
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Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.
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I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
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Music pierces the sky.
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I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
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My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
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When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
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She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.
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Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
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I'm very inspired by past music.
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I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
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At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
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The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts.