Top 1200 Playing Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

I'm always busy listening to music or playing PlayStation, I'm never really quiet - I have to be moving.

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

Before YouTube, I was playing in restaurants and doing open mics - every once in a while, I'd throw an original in there. And then YouTube kind of just opened doors for me, so once I felt like I had an audience to share music with, I began to share my original music.

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

I didn't make music until I was about 18. I'd been playing my whole life, but I wasn't putting it out because I didn't feel like people would take it seriously. I thought people would be like, 'It's just like sad girl music - it's like Taylor Swift.'

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.

Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I'm not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.

Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I'm playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.

As a kid and even to this day, I want to be an actor when I'm done playing. I work on music, too.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

The advantage of playing in Toronto is not playing for one city, you're playing for a country.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

Everybody likes good music, so when you're just playing good music and encouraging everybody to have fun, they'll have fun.

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

I've been sort of playing music since I was probably 8 years old or something like that.

Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to.

If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled.

I always dreamed of playing music with my father. But my voice is so scratchy, I only sing in the shower.

At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.

I always like balance. If I'm playing rock music all the time, chances are I'll start craving some lighter, poppier stuff, both to listen to and to play. I compare music to massage. If someone's been working on your back for a long time, you really want them to move down to your legs or something.

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn't even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.