Where do your songs/progressions/inspiration come from?

For me, it's Oasis, The Beatles, and The Kinks.

Anything that makes me feel something...if it doesnt have any emotional value i normally trash it.

Mostly feelings like GS said.

anything with a good tune or feeling

Most of it just flows through me. I know I pull a lot from bands like Pink Floyd and Sting... as well as artists like Tommy Emmanuel. I love listening to new music and doing my take on it.

I say a feeling, a word, some ass who cut me off, and sometimes other music.

Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Thrash Metal, Blues, anger, hate,my travels(Europe,Mexico,Canada), mysticism, The look of my guitar etc.

I get my lyrics from emotions for sure. I never really write chord progs...(cause 5ths aren't technicall a chord I THINK??)
Riffs and licks, not a clue where i get them from, i think if you just sit down and play long enough you will allways find something kool...
Then i just TAB it out and when i need a riff or w/e for a song i go look in "the book of riffs" and see if one works pretty well if it doesn't quite fit I'll tweak it

some times inspiration comes from pron movies...diggiggity wacka wacka bom bom diggiggity wack a wacka bom bom.

5ths aren't a chord (they are an interval), but add a 3rd to them and they are a chord. 5ths are tonaly ambiguous, because they could either be major or minor, and their tonality depends on their position in the major scale. The way I look at it, 5ths are a chord, but with the 3rd omitted to give a more powerful sound, so they can still be analysed like regular chords. A sequence of 5ths is therefore a sequence of chords, ie, a chord progression.

Back to the thread though, I think I take all of my stylistic influence from the artists I listen to, and I don't listen to an artist unless it moves me in some way. I think a little bit of influence can be picked up from pretty much any form or genre of music though. I don't write lyrics so the thing about feelings and emotion are kinda lost on me. A guitar part can still have a lot of feeling and emotion though (Carlos Santana = awesome!)

thats what i though wasn't sure i knew i the whole triad thing but yea...my playing is better than my vocabulary