Playing Music Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.

  Jon Gordon

  Fun, School, Men

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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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• 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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• When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.

  Kenny Chesney

  Drinking, Beer, Night

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

  John Mayer

  Super Power

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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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Emotional, Singing

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2010.

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• When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

  Z'EV

  Player, Acoustics, Solo

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

  Norah Jones

  Drinking, Sleep, Schedules

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Circles, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Thinking, Eight

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.

  Guy Pearce

  Kids, Funny Things, Musical

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Self, Definitions

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• People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.

  David Gilmour

  Teenage, People, Rude

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

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• From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Silly, Self, Way

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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