Quotes About Passion

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

I do have a rebellious spirit.

We're skateboarders, we have rebellious ways.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

If I were reborn, if I were a teen-ager now, starting my career as a composer, I would do again what I have done.

I was born with 'Aashiqui.' I am reborn on my birthday with 'Cabaret.'

I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.

I'll dive on loose balls. I'll get the winning rebound, hit the winning shot. I'll do whatever it takes to win a game.

Money comes, and money goes. I just want to win games. I could care less how much money is riding on a rebound.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for a living, and then also to try to recapture that feeling that we had when we were telling those stories in the summer.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.

When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.