Playing Music Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

  Mose Allison

  Party, Kids, Black

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.

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• I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was
  born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Radio, Born

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• Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

  Tom DeLonge

  War, Finding Love, Middle

  "Tom DeLonge Breaking Silence On Blink With Autobiographical LP, Movie". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 3, 2005.

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• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  Jason Mraz

  Thinking, Careers, Important

  "Yes! Jason Mraz returns to his 'coffeehouse performer' roots". Interview with Mike Nunez, www.floridatoday.com. February 11, 2015.

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• 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

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• Playing music in front of thousands of people never bothered me. It was only when I started putting on magic shows in front of a much smaller audience that I would begin sweating bullets, so I'm much more focused now.

  David Lovering

  People, Magic, Bullets

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• The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

  Michael Glawogger

  People, Important, Enjoy

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• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  Avey Tare

  Creating, Listening, Environmental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Childhood, Acting, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.

  Slash

  Years, Stuff, Lasts

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• As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Party, Journey, Lucky To Be Alive

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• When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a living is mostly performing as an actor or writing, and for those things I need to have my faculties sharp.

  Nick Offerman

  Weed, Writing, Drawing

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• I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

  Creed Bratton

  Fighting, Men, Rocks

  Source: lamusicblog.com

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• When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.

  Jack Johnson

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: jackjohnsonweb.yaia.com

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• The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Matter, Sometimes, Obsessed

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is kind of a transcendent, amazing gift, so when people come together and they play, I think it's a real special thing.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Real, Ambition, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 11, 2002.

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• I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

  Joel Plaskett

  Real, Boys, Men

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I would say that I'm happy getting to make a living playing music and seeing people enjoy music that I make. So far, things have grown consistently and quicker than I thought they would, so that could possibly continue. Even if it ended tomorrow, I'd be really grateful that I got to do it.

  Ben Rector

  Grateful, People, Tomorrow

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• Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.

  Dan Mangan

  Cheer, Ideas, People

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• I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

  Brett Dennen

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.uncommonmusic.org

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• When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

  Aaron Zigman

  Winning, Play, Tennis

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• I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

  Chick Corea

  Guitar, Band, Saxophone

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