Quotes About Passion

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.

I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.

When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall.

If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I've got the brain of a teenager anyway.

I'm always full of ideas. I just haven't stopped doing what I did as a teenager. Now I just happen to get paid for it!

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.