Quotes About Passion

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.

I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant.

The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

I'm all about inspiring young musicians to get out there and express themselves through music.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of things you liked when you were a kid. And as much as you might like to think you're not, you really are.