Quotes About Intensity

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.

There is no apology for passion

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don't know… It's like some kind of euphoria, that love can't bring to you.

I write music with an exclamation point!

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.