James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.

Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.

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 my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

Music is one big thing to me.

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Music is such a part of my soul.

Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one that everyone can speak. I've just followed my goosebumps in every direction and have found a recipe for what my music feels and sounds like.

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.

Music is kind of my everything.

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.

Music is the center of my life.