Quotes About Passion

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.