Playing Music Quotes - Page 9

• Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

  John Mayer

  Super Power

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• The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.

  Dave Smalley

  Song, Wind, Bird

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

  Mike Patton

  Thinking, Idiot, Fantasy

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Ipods, Dancing, Sound

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Interview By Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

  Ned Rorem

  Creative, Might, Come Up

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• I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Who I Am, Important

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• I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.

  Gia Coppola

  "Gia Coppola's suburban fantasy". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.dazeddigital.com. October 17, 2014.

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• My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

  Leland Sklar

  Years, Careers, Choices

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• I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

  Ryan Adams

  Upbeat, Persons

  "Ryan Adams Gets the Hell Outta Whiskeytown". Interview with Richard Skanse, www.rollingstone.com. September 14, 2000.

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• My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Kids, Roots

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I started playing music at a pretty young age

  Duncan Sheik

  Age, Young, Young Age

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Trying, Daylight

  "Interstellar Composer Hans Zimmer On Music and His Own Process For Scoring Films". Quora Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Writing, Stories, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Elements, Care

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• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Feelings, Brain

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• 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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