Quotes About Passion

I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.

My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.

My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.

My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.

I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.