Quotes About Passion

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the parent, but for himself.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

I won't say if nerd is the right term, but I'm a big, big cricket fanatic. I just cannot stop thinking, talking cricket. I do carry notebooks and make notes to look at improving and developing my own game.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

I call golf with my head and my heart. I don't have any notes in front of me - it's different from basketball and football in that feel.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

The players notice that you love football. You still like to have a ball at your feet in training. Do you come to work with a joie de vivre? I can't give off the impression that I am under brutal pressure or fear that something could go wrong.

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.