Quotes About Passion

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.