Quotes About Passion

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.