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Quotes About Passion

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
~ Dick Cavett
But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
~ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, like it's not going to happen.
~ Jan Hammer
I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.
~ Dee Dee Bridgewater
I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.
~ Dionne Warwick
The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.
~ DJ Ashba
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
~ Lou Reed
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
~ Utah Phillips
Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.
~ Travis Tritt
I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.
~ Donell Jones
Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.
~ Rob Thomas
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
~ Vikram Seth
For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.
~ Merzbow
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
~ Robby Krieger
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
~ Amy Jo Johnson
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
~ Taylor Momsen
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
~ Barry Manilow
If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.
~ Joe Budden
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
~ Bill Dixon
I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.
~ Brett Eldredge
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
~ Bryn Terfel
I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.
~ Ronaldinho
Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.
~ Michael Angelakos