Quotes About Passion

Of course, everyone knows my history as far as technical fouls, but I don't think you can match the intensity that I bring to the floor.

You get a lot of young chefs who have a lot of savoir-faire, a lot of technical knowledge. What's important is to convey to them a cuisine that is made from the heart.

Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not about how good you are technically. It's about your soul coming through. It's about having fun.

My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

It is not only about being technically good, it is all about giving your heart for the club, giving your best.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

Technically, I direct, I'm a writer, and I do all these things, but I never went to school for them. It's just something you pick up; it's like its own art, basically.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

I felt like my Ellenberger fight, I think I fought a really good fight. I was technically on-point, I was sharp, and watching the fight I wasn't disappointed. But I didn't have fun at the end of the day, and that's what I do this for. I want to express myself when I'm up there, like an artist painting a picture.

I like dancers who demand of themselves to achieve, not just technically but also as performers.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write.

I have an inherent interest in filmmaking and equipment. Some of my best friends are technicians.

When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Sometimes I put my heart in front of my technique.

To me, there's way more to being a good drummer than precision and technique.

It ain't the technique, it ain't the speed, it ain't the power. It's who wants it the most.