Quotes and Sayings About Playing Music
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I started playing music when I was really young.
-- Aleksa Palladino -
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
-- Artie Shaw -
And I like music, too, I like playing music.
-- Beau Bridges -
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
-- Bill Laswell -
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
-- Billy Corgan -
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's
-- Billy Eckstine -
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
-- Billy Higgins -
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.
-- Bob Seger -
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
-- Brian Wilson -
I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.
-- Brody Dalle -
I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
-- Charlie Daniels -
Ive been playing music since I was born.
-- Chord Overstreet -
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Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
-- Chris Cornell -
It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.
-- Chris Hesse -
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
-- Dave Grohl -
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Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
-- David Johansen -
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
-- Derek Bailey -
Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.
-- Dhani HarrisonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music
-- Dustin Diamond -
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I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.
-- Emily Robison -
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
-- Ezra Miller -
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
-- Ezra Miller -
I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
-- Gregg Allman -
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
-- Ian MacKaye -
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
-- James HetfieldSource : Playboy Magazine, April 2001.
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There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
-- James Iha -
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I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
-- James Vincent McMorrow