Playing Music Quotes - Page 4

• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

  Robert Browning

  Music, Men, Piano

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception.  All you can do is play melody.  No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Voice

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• Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Play, Bullshit

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• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Music, People

  Quoted in Time, 29 Dec 1961.

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• My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

  Liberace

  Music, Spiritual, Struggle

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• The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

  John McLaughlin

  Moments, Enjoyed

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

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Joy, Music Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

  Ryan Adams

  Play, Joy, Together

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

  James Hetfield

  Satisfaction, My Family, Heavy Music

  Playboy Magazine, April 2001.

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• I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

  Brian Wilson

  Play, Piano, Piano Playing

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• I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

  Jason Aldean

  Misfits

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• I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dancing, Down And, Young

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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• As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.

  Chaz Bundick

  Long, Bored, Add

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Tobias Segal

  People, Together, Way

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, People, Needs

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

  Pete Doherty

  Drug, World, Compare

  The Guardian Interview, July 2004.

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• I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Giving, Trying

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

  Mark Linkous

  Sound, Want, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Zakk Wylde

  Music, Football

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• I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.

  Jackson Guthy

  Long, Surfing

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

  Margot Benary-Isbert

  Music, Peace, War

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• I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Baseball, Athlete, Singing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it well. Those who can do both supremely form a tiny club, whose honorary chairman is the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

  Justin Davidson

  World, Clubs, Littles

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