Quotes About Passion

Find a path in life that you can embrace and enjoy rather than something that you're expected to do. That's what makes life interesting.

Mountaineering will never be a safe activity and would not be worth doing if it were.

creativity is not a gimmick, but a lifestyle.

Never confuse having a career with having a life

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I'm always thinking music.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

God is the spice of my life

Love is not finding someone you can leave with, it's finding someone you cannot live without????????????????????????????????

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not—they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.