Quotes About Passion

When I make a good beat, I'm possessed. I'm not on earth!

I got possessed by music as an infant.

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.

The Napoli fans want players who put their heart and soul into the match and who fight for every possession.

Honestly, Thibs is a dog. He's a guy that is an extreme competitor and very aware of everything that's going on. Takes each possession like it's our last, and really coaches with the type of intensity and passion that you want from a coach.

The biggest thing for me is just playing hard every possession.

John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no one else playing it. I could be, as it were, the best boy in an all-girls school.

I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.

The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

I'm certainly aware of the fans. I'm always hoping that what I'm doing is something they'll like, because I do appreciate them. But, no, when I get into the studio, it's all about what I like. It's the same thing that led me to the possibility of making that first Boston album, which was to divorce myself from all other influences.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn't have the need to be on the stage; I didn't feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.