Pursuit of Passion Quotes

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

Money will not make you happy. It's most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.

A lot of people like structure, so there's definitely a risk with being an artist that a lot of people aren't really willing to take.

I had to quit everything. I had to give it all for music.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

Musicians are kind of like pirates, you know? You have to be free to follow whatever your muse is, or wherever life is pulling you - especially if you aren't in, like, U2, and making millions and millions of dollars.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.

I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.