Top 1200 Playing Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I'm very careful with what I let my ear gate hear on my own. I don't care if I go out and something is playing that I wouldn't put on myself, that doesn't bother me but when I feed off and get nourishment from music, it's through things that are encouraging and lift me up, things that have integrity and purpose and that's what Christian Worship Music is all about.

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

But in the NFL, you know you're not playing for the 'T' on the side of the helmet. You're not playing for the color of the Steelers. You're playing more because they're paying you to play and you have a family to take care of.

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

The crowd should be allowed to chant perhaps, or get some music playing.

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.

Not everyone gets to have one of the few super-dominant, all-pro, superstars in this league, and so playing with the pass and playing with space and playing quick is a really good backup.

To me, it's pretty much the same thing - I just love playing music. But the cool thing about DJing is that I get to play other people's music, I can mix it up between our songs and a variety of musical genres. It also enables me to be more intimate with the audience.

I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much music going on there. As a kid, I was playing there all the time and learning a lot about music.

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music serves a greater purpose, and that showed me a whole other side to spiritual jazz, one which you can hear in the music - the gospel and blues feel, the soul that's embedded into the more avant-garde records.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes and got me into Dionne Warwick. It was the best music I'd ever heard. It was just that extremely deep, human, thought-out stream of ideas. You can always hear something new when you listen to that music.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.

One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.

When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.

I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to school, set up a proper business about 10 years ago - our anniversary coming up. But I've played music throughout and still am.

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

When your car rattles when you drive, you know you are playing cool music.

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

When we do, when we're playing physical and we're playing tight, playing with emotion, we play well.

If you're playing someone who's not like you at all, it's good to find music that is their rhythm and their energy.

I used to play music at home, and now I'm playing for thousands of people.

I do believe the music keeps us coming back. We really enjoy playing it.

I've been teaching myself the fundamentals and being around some good players, but also been learning to play team games, playing 3-on-3s, playing 1-on-1s, playing 5-on-5s, playing 21. There are guys bigger than me on the court, but I've had numerous comparisons to Ty Lawson.

Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.

Even when I'm not onstage singing, there's always music going on in my head. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - it's sitting in bed at night, trying to go to sleep, while the music keeps playing in your head - especially when you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to memorize it and get everything.

I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band and we worked really hard and did not get very far. I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky. That's never lost in me, that I went through Saturday Night Live.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what's gonna happen and make plays off that.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody. I learned to play guitar by myself, and writing songs came with playing guitar, so the writing isn't one part and the music something else.

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had this affinity for folk music, and music in general, for as long as I can remember. So as soon as I could start playing shows, I did. And my parents were really supportive of me the entire time.

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.