Quotes About Passion

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky.

I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as well, just because I love playing. There's pieces where I want to grab an instrument and play with the rest of the group, like 'The Light of the Seven,' for example; I would love to play the piano for that.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I don't play beats. I hate playing beats. I'm an orchestration drummer. I'm a musical drummer.

I collect many hats, but I do like Bailey's Hats, and I order them online.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.