Quotes About Passion

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.