Robert Fripp Quotes

I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.

I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.