Quotes About Desire

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don't know… It's like some kind of euphoria, that love can't bring to you.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

I cannot live one day without love.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.