Top 1200 Playing Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.

We're thrilled to play an offbeat place. Our music fits with it. I love playing unusual venues.

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental music.

There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.

I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.

I don't think I was ever meant to be tied down to one band for the rest of my life, playing one style of music.

In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

I've been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22.

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

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.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

I enjoy rains with my husband Yash. I love playing music and take him out and get drenched.

I change things each time we go into making a record, like the personnel playing on it, the types of music.

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

My siblings weren't playing music; I was the only one who wanted to buy a guitar and was listening on headphones the whole time.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

If I'm not working on music, I'm probably torturing my infant daughter, Ingrid, with kisses or running or playing soccer in the park.

I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

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.'

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

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.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

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.