So what music inspires your best work?

rammstein
muse
katie melua
classical
AC/DC
jimmi hendrix
clapton
and the list go on and on and on

Last week I bought a CD from a young dutch jazz singer and composer.
Just happy, relaxed and mellow music to listen to when I am drawing.
Here are some YouTube links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRNDp8t52Sc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdbw0bDLJwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-zV_H1E4k

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Matthew Good, The Tragically Hip

I prefer music without lyrics because my mind starts to follow them, and I react to the content of them- so I like classical music when I'm drawing or painting, so I can feel the goodness without mentally getting diverted from my subject- which is to be drawing.

I definitely react to the content of the lyrics in the songs, but for me that is a good thing. To each his own!

Sometimes Rock, Pop.
Sometimes classical music....

As for the last few months, I only listen to Pink Floyd while drawing... But I also used to listen to The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave...

its amazing to see how music is so important to so many artists on this site.

for me, music is a place I dissolve into. without it, i would be incomplete i think.

I have been brought up on irish folk, but my taste ranges all across the board.

I think the Beatles were something special.
Lep Zeppelin were ahead of their times.
Bob Dylan can write how a whole nation feels.
Oasis brought the guitar back to England.
Jeff Buckley spoke to your soul.
And Willy Mason tells it how it is.

Check out my song on my website. I hope people can relate to the lyrics.

www.freewebs.com/cordyland

i also have my art posted there.

I am learning how to improve in both categories.

Cordy

Aga wrote: "As for the last few months, I only listen to Pink Floyd while drawing... But I also used to listen to The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave..."

AH- at last- another human being knows of Leonard Cohen! Hello Aga! Comment ca va? (fr.) Guess what Aga- I sold Leonard a picture of his own face in '69. My career has gone down hill ever since! When I met him I told him that I knew almost all of the words to all of his songs. ( 2 albums, then)
He said, " Thanks a lot, Man. Thanks a lot."
What's one of your favourite Cohen songs, Aga? I like "Bird on a Wire" and "Tonight Will Be Fine"...

Don't feel bad about it, from what I've read it didn't depend on you. But the feeling that Leonard Cohen owns a part of your work must be really amazing!

You're right, he is well known in Europe, (he even has Polish roots!) and in Poland he became famous thanks to Maciej Zembaty - Polish singer and songwriter, who is really fascinated with Cohen. Around the early 80's he translated some of Cohen's lyrics into Polish and made records with Cohen's songs. They sound really great, M. Zembaty has an amazing, low voice and besides his translations are just perfect.

Ya- Mr. 'C' was my life for a while. Some folks get relaly trapped by his lyrics. I even read of one guy who blamed his whole life of misfortune on Leonard. I don't know if he still has the picture. I'm glad he's out of the monastery!