Quotes About Passion

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

I've always loved jazz.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.