Quotes About Passion

That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.

What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it?

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.

There were no excuses. If you want to write, you write. You find the time. You make the time.

You need to be willing to live on the street to be an artist. Getting sucked into a career is an invitation to bail. It makes it too easy to give up. It makes it almost inevitable that you will.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Il talento non esiste, capitano. Esistono soltanto l'ispirazione e l'ambizione.

The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.

Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else.

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. —Carlos Santana "Maria Maria

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Friends borrow. Fans buy. Please...BE A FAN.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

To follow God, one must be a little "out of their mind" (and "into their Spirit").