Playing Music Quotes - Page 8

• I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is a multitude of wisdom that can be gained by bands like Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and the Cure. I think if we were to pay close attention to what's on the radio right now then we'd lose our identity entirely.

  Jason C. Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Black

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been playing music most of my life.

  Adam Duritz

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know when I started playing music as a young man I felt the need to be noticed and to prove myself. My motivation is much different now but what's still left is the love of music and the joy of entertaining people- the feeling that I make a difference, giving something back rather than just taking. Every year or two I come out with new music, or new arrangements of old music which keeps my show fresh.

  Peter White

  Motivation, Men, Years

  5 Copy quote

• I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.

  Chris Hesse

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  4 Copy quote

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

  Joshua Homme

  Hate, Entitlement, Crawling

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

  Adam Levine

  Thinking, Musician, Care

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Teaching, Play, Want

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Daniel Barenboim

  Unique, Achieve

  17 Copy quote

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

  Kim Gordon

  Ideas, Happened

  "Exclusive Interview with Kim Gordon". Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. Jun 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have come from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negros should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling and if we try to copy whites we will make bad copies…We won France by playing music which was ours and not a pale imitation of others, and if we are to develop in America we must develop along our own lines.

  James Reese Europe

  Writing, America, Feelings

  24 Copy quote

• An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.

  Slash

  Sex, Rose, Erotic

  39 Copy quote

• I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

  Tim McGraw

  Light, Emotion, Feels

  7 Copy quote

• You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

  Kenny Chesney

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  9 Copy quote

• I started playing music when I was really young.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Young

  4 Copy quote

• It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.

  Chris Hesse

  Songwriting

  4 Copy quote

• This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red hair? Blue hair? Pink? Blonde? Short? Long? Whatever. We might as well shave our heads. Hair has nothing to do with the reason we playing music. It’s a style. Something that will never last as long as the songs we play and the words we sing. Listen up ladies in bands, I’m so proud to be one of you and I don’t care if we all look exactly alike or if we are all carbon copies of each other. We have things to say and it’s up to us to get people to not just look but to LISTEN!

  Hayley Williams

  Song, Thinking, Hair

  "I still love Paramore". yelyahwilliams.tumblr.com. August 3, 2011.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

  Bill Laswell

  People, Achievement, Done

  11 Copy quote

• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  Eddie Vedder

  Ocean, Opportunity, Able

  "Sean Penn, Eddie Vedder". Interview with Aaron Stipkovich, andmagazine.com. May 16, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Moby

  Country, Israel, Play

  6 Copy quote

• I love playing music no matter where it is.

  Martin Garrix

  Matter

  128 Copy quote

• The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

  Moby

  Thinking, Way, Music Is

  4 Copy quote

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

  Dave Grohl

  Going Out

  6 Copy quote

• My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.

  Steven Adler

  Beautiful, Dog, Nice

  52 Copy quote

• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  Artie Shaw

  Games, Why Not, Phrases

  4 Copy quote

• I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

  Arthur Godfrey

  School, College, Symphony

  8 Copy quote