Quotes About Passion

A large part of my childhood was spent holding a cricket bat. The first time I picked one up was in the garden aged about six, and I've never really put the bat down since.

I am never not going to want to play for England so I don't care how old I am. If I am doing well I hope I am going to get picked.

I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it's my passion.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.