Playing Music Quotes - Page 10

• As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

  Henry Rollins

  Faces, Environment, Young

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• I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

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• Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

  John Legend

  Childhood, Wanted

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

  Robby Krieger

  Funny, Rocks, People

  Comment posted at his official website robbykrieger.com,

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• Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.

  Don Alias

  Mom, Growing Up, School

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• Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

  Art Pepper

  Running, Women, Bad Ass

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• I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

  Jools Holland

  Thinking, Listening, Architecture

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• 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!

  Tracy Chapman

  Lonely, Fun, Play

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• 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.

  Ornette Coleman

  Writing, School, Mean

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

  Bo Bice

  Jobs, Gigs, Firsts

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• I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.

  Bert McCracken

  Guy, Parent, Drug

  "The Used Gladly Sold Their Souls". The Sunday Telegraph Interview, July 10, 2005.

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Adam Duritz

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

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• 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

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• 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.

  Bryan Hayes

  Drinking, Beer, Night

  "Bryan Hayes To Play At Sweet T Market". Interview With Linley Stringer, maroonweekly.com. December 2, 2015.

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• My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

  Jonny Lang

  Passion, Giving, Interesting

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• I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

  Jonny Lang

  Careers, Sound, Would Be

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

  Jonny Lang

  Kids, Parent, Kids Playing

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• It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

  Tommy Lee

  Writing, Listening

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• 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.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Self, Definitions

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• 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.

  Guy Pearce

  Kids, Funny Things, Musical

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Circles, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

  Z'EV

  Player, Acoustics, Solo

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Emotional, Singing

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2010.

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