Herb Alpert Quotes

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

I was addicted to playing music.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.

I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them. It's a sickness on some level. It's a compulsion.

I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

One you've danced, you always dance.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Music is an addiction.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.

I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.