Rick Ross Quotes

I like working with people who are passionate about what I'm doing. I'm super passionate about music, so I want to make sure my colleagues and people on my team are the same, as well. I'm a very hands-on artist, so I don't give my work to my team.

When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.

When I was making beats, I don't remember thinking about doing it as a career, I just remember that every day I wanted to do it.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

Music has always been so integral to my life. It's always been my work and my passion.

I have my own studio. I'm in it all the time.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.