Roger Taylor Quotes

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.