Quotes About Passion

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don't know… It's like some kind of euphoria, that love can't bring to you.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

I cannot live one day without love.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.