Quotes About Passion

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

I love all types of music myself.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.