Top 121 Play Music Quotes

I never really planned on any of this being a career; all I knew for sure was that I wanted to create, I wanted to play music, and I wanted to share music.

If I’m feeling like rock, we’ll do some of that, and if I’m feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that’s typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

I’d play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn’t wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that would be following me barefoot, I would take off my shoes, and they would all laugh at me because I couldn’t go three steps without wincing.

Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that’s one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I’m just telling you from my heart, I’m so in love with life.

I like to play music; play guitar – I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That’s nice.

I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn’t want to be famous.

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it’s those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

We used to hang out in my studio apartment, play music and dream about being rock stars.

We’re all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I’ve had it a lot better than most people. I’ve had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You’d probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

That’s what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don’t play music, has a sound – their own sound, that thing that you’re talking about.

That’s one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it’s all very welcoming and welcomed.

I don’t feel like I’m on a mission. I’m trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there’s something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that’s always been difficult for me. I’m a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren’t exposed to creative music.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

I wanted to play music. I didn’t think about where it would go or what it would do.

I just have this real love and connection with what I’m doing when I play music.

The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.

One of the things I’ve heard musicians say that’s true is, ‘I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.’ I know we’re always going to make music. The traveling part – that is the most wear and tear on any human.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don’t take it for granted, not even for a second.

I’ve had so many young girls come up to me after a show and say, ‘How do I start putting my music on Bandcamp?’ or ‘I used to play music, but I don’t anymore, and I really want to start writing again.’ That’s just the most amazing feeling.

We’re four guys that play music. We’re not a part of any genre. We just happened to have come out in 1998.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you’re already too late.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

I love to play music.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.

I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn’t move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.

I think I’ll always live in Fort Worth. It’s great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

The one that achieved the greatest amount of success is the Eagles. And because it was really successful, it was a lot more fun. It still is. We get a chance to play music that a lot of people really relate to, and to play places all over the world. That’s fun.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

I’d forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it’s kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It’s kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It’s not a conscious thing, like, ‘Oh finally, I need to do this,’ it’s kind of a constant need.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

I’ve forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day… But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.

I’ve gotten to see the world and play music with my friends.

And for the past 10 years I’ve been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they’re all about that bottom line. So it’s nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it’s therapeutic for me.

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

I don’t write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It’s something that I have to do to stay alive.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That’s why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

I don’t play music very well, so I’ve always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I’m a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time ‘cuz sometimes it’s just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That’s what I want to spend my time talking about.

You can’t play music and be mad at anybody. It’ll show in your heart!

The more you play music, the better you’ll get.

I think it’s everyone’s dream to tour the world to play music.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.