Quotes About Passion

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

I was a musician first before anything.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

As a young musician, you really want to play.

I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.