Quotes About Passion

My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also rhythmic.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.

I really like small, intimate shows, but there's nothing like playing at a festival. It's a completely different experience. Everyone is just a little more primal; they can get away with more things.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

I wanted to become a cricketer primarily because the idea of playing in front of 40,000 odd people gave me an adrenaline rush.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

I feel that when you are passionate about what you do, money will follow. If money becomes the primary factor, passion goes down the drain.

My primary focus will be Malayalam films. I will choose from what comes my way and take a call irrespective of the language.

I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Money has never been my primary goal.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.