Quotes About Passion

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

If there is no dance, there is not music.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it.