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Quotes About Desire

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
You don't ask, you don't get.
~ Steve Rennie
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
~ Rumi
The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
~ Billy Corgan
Music is an incitement to love.
~ Horace
I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine
~ Martina McBride
Temptation hath a music for all ears.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.
~ Tori Amos
I didn't really want to give up music.
~ Bryan Ferry
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
~ Ernest Dowson
Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.
~ Morrissey
The music is the void. And you're the reason why.
~ Gayle Forman
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
~ Grimes
Impulsive passion please set me free.
~ Delano Johnson, Love Quotes
I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
~ Beyonce Knowles
I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.
~ Glenn Branca
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
~ Holly Near
Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.
~ John Legend
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
~ Adi Shankara
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
~ Ibn Arabi
We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
~ Edith Stein
If you will it, it is no dream
~ Theodor Herzl