Top 1200 Playing Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I think the more important thing for a player is to make sure that you're playing and you're playing well and playing consistently. If doesn't matter where you are.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love.

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.

I started playing music when I was 12 years old.

I started playing music at a pretty young age

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing.

I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

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.

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Playing music is such a great way to bring people together.

My dad really inspired me to start playing music.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

If I hadn't done the PUP video, I probably wouldn't be playing music right now.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs that were playing disco, funk, and pop music, and we would gather round, go to the parks, and dance and enjoy ourselves.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I really enjoy touring and playing music to people.

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I don't want impersonators playing our music badly.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

When I was playing, it was me playing both ends of the floor, playing offense, playing defense and I gave the ball up with assists. It wasn't like me doing one thing, scoring 25 and having three assists and one steal.

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I love playing music and I'm serious about It. But It's not brain surgery.

I'm not playing up to pretend, I don't live above my means. In my song "96 Cris" I say, "...My bills too low for me to fall off." Honestly, if I never did anything again with music, because I put out my own music, I could pay my bills, forever. I can pay my mortgage off my old music. Of course, you probably wouldn't see me in my Lamborghini but, do you really need a Lambo? That's really what you have to ask yourself.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Ive been playing music since I was born.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even Ryan Adams... That was the first place I really started playing music, and I had to really step up my game. Really quick. Or get kicked off the stage.

I love music - in my playing days, I was always the team DJ.

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

When I started playing music, all I was hearing was whatever was on the radio.

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

Here's something weird, though: I loved Jimi's music so much that I would never perform it for people. Throughout my teens and playing in various bands, I refused to play Hendrix songs. I know that sounds strange, but Jimi's music was so special to me that it was like works of art that shouldn't be touched or altered.

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

If your playing basic music, its just rock.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I always feel I have a long way to go in my playing and my music.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.