Top 1200 Playing Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

When I was playing week-in week-out, I was playing 46 games a season, and there's nothing better than playing every week.

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

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.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if you try to do something else and you're trying to build your music career, and then you say, "I'm going to go do a movie," and you're terrible, you can really hurt your music career because as a musician, the goal is to be cool. You're playing the guitar and you're in front of all these people and your vibe is to be as cool as you can possibly be.

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

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.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. I came out like, "How is this going to be more than a hobby I'm always paying off debt for?" I could've sat at a desk and written pieces for orchestras that never would have been played, or I could've written music for me as a performer. I play electronics, and the places I was gonna be playing were bass clubs and house parties.

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

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.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.

I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing me in particular.

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

It's great to see Latino music coming to the mainstream, but at the same time, there are also a lot more styles to explore: African music, Indian music, Chinese music.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

I love playing music - and live especially - and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

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.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like playing music; I want to play with a band.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

Imperial Teen is more like four people who like each other playing music.

Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay.

Some people unfortunately don't enjoy what they do at all for a living or whatever. That is unfortunate. We do always enjoy playing music.

I've seen girls start playing music who have told me they were inspired by me.

I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

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.

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.