Quotes About Passion

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily about being a God-given virtuoso.

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.

It's easy to have strong, visceral feelings about disrespecting America. It's harder to get passionate about tax law.

The emotional compact between football clubs and their supporters is visceral and usually lifelong.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision, and I'm inspired by it. It's sort of what makes me tick.