Gin Wigmore Quotes

One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they're not just in love for a day or a week. People who are really gritty - they're still interested.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

Focus is the secret to success. Focus and enjoying whatever it is you're doing.

I will play until I can't play anymore.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.