Quotes About Passion

I am and always will be a blues guitarist

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

Watching him, I understood for the first time how you could really live music, how you could listen to it completely and make it come alive, so that it was part of your life.

The only prewritten songs I had ready were "Circus" and "My Father's Eyes," neither of which seemed to have found their right incarnation yet. For almost a year we worked day and night, sometimes just perfecting little guitar motifs, or honing and reshaping tracks with the Pro Tools system that Simon is a master of. The result was one of my favorite albums; I poured my soul into this one, and I believe you can hear that.

Enthusiasm gives birth to enthusiasm, and wit and talent kindles wit and talent

I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.

You're going to work in this life, and you're going to play. And when the last days come, you'll look back and find that that's all there was, an endless stream of days going back to today. But if you can find the thing you should be doing, the thing that makes you you, and if you can make that thing yours, then you've beaten the game. Most men don't, but the point is to try

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for battle.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

find em, fool em, fuck em, forget em

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

Except under dire circumstances or as a day job to support creative endeavors, a smart person is not so likely to want to wait tables, file forms, work on an assembly line, or sell shoes. It isn't that he disparages these lines of work as beneath his dignity; rather, it is that he can see clearly how his days would be experienced as meaningless if he had to spend his time not thinking.

It takes God to desire God.

We must address the things that happen in our culture exegetically, expositionally, theologically, historically, critically, lovingly, passionately, humbly, and with Jesus at the center.

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.

the burning desire to tell the story of my dream was such that an hour seemed like an eternity.

Although he eventually chose theology over music, music remained a deep passion throughout his life. It became a vital part of his expression of faith, and he taught his students to appreciate it and make it a central aspect of their expressions of faith.

If nothing matters, why rage?