quotes 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 -
I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.
-- Jason Aldean -
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The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.
-- Johnny ReidSource : "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.
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Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.
-- Kate Bush -
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
-- Kesha -
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas
-- Kim Gordon -
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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
-- Les ClaypoolSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I love playing music no matter where it is.
-- Martin Garrix -
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
-- Nitin Sawhney -
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When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
-- Paul Oakenfold -
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
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There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.
-- Pete DohertySource : The Guardian Interview, July 2004.
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For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
-- Randy OwenSource : "Interview with Alabama's Randy Owen". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
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For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
-- Rick Wright -
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
-- Ricky Skaggs -
An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.
-- Slash -
I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.
-- Tim McGraw -
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I love playing music, I love my dog, and I love my family.
-- Tyler Posey -
We love playing music but were too weird to play music.
-- Wayne Coyne -
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
-- Zakk Wylde -
As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.
-- Chaz BundickSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is what it is.
-- Chuck MosleySource : Source: thequietus.com
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I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.
-- Frank FairfieldSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.
-- Frank FairfieldSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.
-- Gia CoppolaSource : "Gia Coppola's suburban fantasy". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.dazeddigital.com. October 17, 2014.
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I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.
-- Greg SaunierSource : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
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I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.
-- Jackson GuthySource : Source: www.seventeen.com
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I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.
-- Lola Kirke -
I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.
-- Mark Linkous -
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The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.
-- Michael Glawogger -
When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.
-- Michael Marisi Ornstein -
I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.
-- Terry Bozzio -
Playing music is such a great way to bring people together.
-- Tobias Segal -
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When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
-- Z'EV -
I would say that I'm happy getting to make a living playing music and seeing people enjoy music that I make. So far, things have grown consistently and quicker than I thought they would, so that could possibly continue. Even if it ended tomorrow, I'd be really grateful that I got to do it.
-- Ben Rector -
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
-- Chick Corea -
With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.
-- Dan ManganSource : Source: www.songfacts.com
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
-- Rodney Atkins -
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
-- Jools Holland