Quotes About Intensity

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.