“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Tchaikovsky

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1672211.Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that’s when I was born.
– Charlie Parker

ww.azquotes.com/author/11313-Charlie_Parker

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. – Placido Domingo

The greatest artists were never men of taste”, by which I take to mean that by not sophisticating their instincts, great artists never lose touch with life’s essential simplicities, which they relish for the skill it gives them in competing with popular culture.
– John Coolidge Adams

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/john-adams-interview-i-don-t-think-you-can-be-a-great-composer-unless-you-have-a-feeling-for-harmony

Music, being identical with heaven, isn’t a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It’s a condition of eternity.
– Gustav Holst

Music is the silence between the notes.
– Claude Debussy

Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/profession/quotes-by-composers

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
–Aaron Copland

Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results?q=arron+copland

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature’s need.
– Richard Wagner

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/richard_wagner_789672