Music Playing Quotes
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Music Playing Quotes & Sayings
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I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
— Dave Matthews
Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
— Mary Street
I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
— Earl Scruggs
When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.
— Pattie Brooks
I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
— Jerry Jeff Walker
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
— Ezra Miller
There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.
— Courtney M. Privett
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'
— Huey Lewis
I've been playing music most of my life.
— Adam Duritz
I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of scary.
— Justin Vernon
I started playing music when I was really young.
— Aleksa Palladino
I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.
— Tinashe
When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
— Prince
If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
— Joe Perry
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
— Herbie Mann
I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.
— Brandon Boyd
My pure love is playing music.
— Jamie Cullum
Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive.
— Eric Siblin
I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.
— Bryan Hayes
But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
— Jake Owen
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
— Luka Sulic
There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
— Leila Josefowicz
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
— Bonnie Raitt
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
— Ginger Baker
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.
— King Khan
She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
— Terry Pratchett
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and ... I never think about it.
— Moby
I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.
— Jack Johnson
I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ...
— Robert Pattinson
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
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
— Kenneth R. Miller
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
— Sylvia Robinson
I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.
— Dan Bejar
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
— William James
Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)
— Franz Liszt
Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
— Creed Bratton
A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.
— Sarah McLachlan
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing ... or producing.
— Andrew Taylor
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
— Steve Vai
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
— Igor Stravinsky
This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out ...
— Ryan Adams
I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.
— Ravi Shankar
I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.
— Juliana Hatfield
As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
— Henry Rollins
Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
— Bret Michaels
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
— Bill Laswell
And I like music, too, I like playing music.
— Beau Bridges
Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
— Nancy Farmer
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
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
— Ron Currie Jr.
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
— Duke Ellington
And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life.
— Shannon L. Alder
Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West
I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.
— Drake Bell
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.
— Daniel Barenboim
I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.
— Elliott Smith
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
— Yann Tiersen
I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.
— Avey Tare
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.
— Carrie Brownstein
What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.
— Penn Dayton Badgley
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
— Clarence Clemons
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
— Chuck Mangione
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
— B.B. King
She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.
— Johnny Mercer
The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin.
— Cormac McCarthy
The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
— Rodney Atkins
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
— Charlie Parker
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
— Steve Lacy
I have never stopped playing music.
— Jason Schwartzman
A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.
— Charles Rosen
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
— Paul Weller
I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.
— Rebecca Ferguson
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
— Giles Andreae
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.
— Peter Shaffer
I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
— Robbie Williams
I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups - all that stuff.
— Chris Eigeman
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
— Dave Davies
If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
— Victor Wooten
Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.
— Gail Ann Dorsey
There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.
— Shaquille O'Neal
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
— Kate Bush
I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was
born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio. — Bob Dylan
born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio. — Bob Dylan
I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.
— Cheyenne Kimball