I want to know what artist, author, etc. inspired you to do what you are doing basically your idol for whatever you love to do. For example I love to sing and write music my inspiration would be Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson! They are both girls that just have fun doing what they love to do. I'm in a band with little dreamer and we are hoping to become singers ourselves b/c, that is what we enjoy doing and I wish to share my talent and inspire everyone around the world to keep on singing. I want my music to have some impact on someones life and really uplifts them through tough times. I hope one day this can come true. My dream!
I don't really have an idol. I have been attending choir practice since year 4 and I have sang two solos in primary. But since last year I haven't been doing much singing. I like writing poetry about how I feel and sometimes I right stories but I never finish them. I would say that I have been inspired by a lot of artists but I am not sure who my idol is.
Sylvia Plath and e.e.cummings because they've both paved the way for other poets with similar styles. Love their work but I try to keep theirs and mine seperate as if I copied them it would be awfully second-rate. So it's great to have idols and all but you need to draw the line at some point and realise your own style.
Tolkien really. Also....Einstein and David Hawkins. But since I dont want to come out as a complete nerd, from the musical idols ill say, DJ Tiesto, Nightwish and....Paul Oakenfold.
Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without understanding no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Slash. Sure, not a writer/poet whatever, but I can like musical artists, right?
And, of course, Hemingway.
"Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can; and many say, 'We will breathe later.' And most of them don’t die because they are already dead." -- Graffiti of the events of May, Paris '68
I don't idolise anyone. I think it's a very dangerous thing to do. To idolise and emulate another person is to deny your own unique potential as a person. I also detest popular culture, and I feel as though it really encourages idolisation of otherwise talentless dimwits who simply happen to have a pretty face and can (sort of) carry a tune...well enough that it may be electronically enhanced in any case.
I am, however, greatly inspired by a number of vocalists, writers and performers.
Maria Callas has always been a huge inspiration to me as a vocalist and as a coniseur of opera. Sumi Jo as well. Bernadette Peters and Joanna Gleeson are incredible women, and through their examples I am constantly encouraged to pursue my love of the arts, specifically Broadway performance. Not very many film actors on my list, Kevin Spacy definitly, Kevin Smith too. Kathy Bates (amazing woman) and Helena Bonham-Carter. In my pursuit of the written word, Plaith, Cummings, Dickenson, Angelou, Shakespeare, The great Beats--Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Keroac--Virginia Woolf, Orson Scott Card, Francesca Lia Block, Ralph Waldo Emerson...there are playwrites too...and composers...a great number of people whom I respect and draw a great deal of inspiration and guidance from.
But all of these above are meerly inspiration for the work I do. In all of my pursuits of my passions, I am myself--no one more.
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Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.
