Quotes About Passion

Your best ideas—the ones that truly excite you—define who you are and what you want. They deserve to be treated like treasure.

Advice for writers: if you're a writer, a real writer, a really, really real writer, like, REALLY a writer, you should not write a sentence like this one.

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor es como la amistad prendida en fuego. Al principio, una llama, muy bonita, a menudo caliente y feroz, pero ligera y a veces parpadea. A medida que el amor crece, nuestros corazones maduran y nuestro amor se convierte en brasas, ardientes e insaciables" (Bruce Lee)

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Talking about music is like talking about sex. Can you describe it? Are you supposed to?

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

No money shots! No shifting, grinding, joyfully thrusting crotch shots. It didn't matter. It was all there in his eyes, his face, the face of a Saturday night jukebox Dionysus, the shimmying eyebrows and rocking band.

You write about what you love and you write about things you're trying to make sense of.

I decided the world was filled with plenty of good guitar players, many of them my match or better, but how many good songwriters were there?

People always asked me how the band played like it did night after night, almost murderously consistent, NEVER stagnant and always full balls to the wall. There are two answers. One is they loved and respected their jobs, one another, their leader and their audience. The other is . . . because I MADE them!

Do you remember, Abelard.… Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

To accept desire, to surrender yourself to desire … to explore desire, to seek out gratification. It was the polar opposite of wisdom and discretion.

It's all right to be a happy amateur. And it's all right to be truly gifted. But to be competent and middling bad at an artifice that you care about—that's a nightmare.

Time had a way of making passion into work. He had what he wanted. He had his dream. He had to live it and breathe it and do its budget.

Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes.

Focus on your music and not technology.