Quotes About Passion

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music.

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.