Playing Music Quotes - Page 7

• Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Years, Cds, Enough

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• The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

  Taylor Hanson

  Fun, Keys, Guitar

  "Taylor Hanson Isn’t Burning Down Any Hotel Rooms". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.

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

  David Johansen

  World, Music Is, Bearable

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• I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

  Huey Lewis

  School, Engineering, Class

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• I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Want, Feels

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

  Ezra Miller

  Fun, People, Done

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• For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

  Rick Wright

  Thinking, Play, Music Is

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• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Community, Different

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• Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

  Chris Cornell

  Kids, Needs, Band

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• For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

  Randy Owen

  People, Church, Grew Up

  "Interview with Alabama's Randy Owen". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Writing, Talking, Language

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• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

  Ani DiFranco

  Gun, Shoes, People

  "Song: "Fuel"". 1998.

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• The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

  Johnny Reid

  Song, Singing, Stories

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• 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.

  Kate Bush

  Mother, Brother, Influence

  "The Great Lost Kate Bush Interview". Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1985.

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• A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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• I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

  Avey Tare

  Play, People, Want

  "Avey Tare Talks New Solo Album, Animal Collective's Future, Crocodiles". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.

  Steven Rinella

  Art, Hate, Hunting

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• I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

  Emily Robison

  Mom, Want, Great Mom

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• Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

  Joan Baez

  Dark, Animal, Keys

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

  John Legend

  Mother, Years, Piano

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www-s4.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• My pure love is playing music.

  Jamie Cullum

  Love Is, Pure Love, Pure

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• If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

  Billy Higgins

  People, Encounters, Levels

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• We love playing music but were too weird to play music.

  Wayne Coyne

  Play

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• I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  School, Play, New Things

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• I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Sea, Land

  Source: www.commdiginews.com

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