Quotes About Passion

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.