Quotes About Passion

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.