Playing Music Quotes - Page 9

• When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

  Billy Eckstine

  Birthday, Band, Way

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• I love playing music, I love my dog, and I love my family.

  Tyler Posey

  Dog, I Love My Family, Love My Family

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• You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

  Dustin Diamond

  Stars, Trying, Actors

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• Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

  Ezra Miller

  Running, Personality, Return

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• I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

  Dave Matthews

  Way, Different, Therapy

  "Dave Matthews: An Unlikely Rock Star At The Crossroads". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2010.

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• No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Writing, People

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• I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

  Kesha

  Years, Twelve, Reason

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

  Herbie Hancock

  Husband, Father, Writing

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• I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Mean, Race, People

  Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Dream, Cancer, Moving

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• I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Mean, Clubs

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• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  Van Morrison

  Musician, Platforms, Developing

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• I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

  Bob Seger

  Singing, Lines, Ends

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• My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

  Anton Yelchin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• I have never stopped playing music.

  Jason Schwartzman

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ive been playing music since I was born.

  Chord Overstreet

  Born

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• No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

  Darren Criss

  Play, Long, Musical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love going on tour and playing music for people.

  Moby

  People

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• In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.

  Brandon Mull

  Writing, Ambition, Progress

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, Untamed, Energy

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• I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

  Rodney Atkins

  Family And Friends, Backyards, Good Food

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• I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

  T Bone Burnett

  Stupid, Want, Able

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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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• 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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