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“I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.”

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“I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.”

“It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.”

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Author:Tommy Lee

“Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.”

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Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“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.”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“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.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.”

Long Surfing Playing Music

Author:Jackson Guthy

“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.”

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Author:Christine Jennings

“I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.”

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Author:Dan Bejar

“Playing music is such a great way to bring people together.”

People Way Together Music Is Playing Music

Author:Tobias Segal

“As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.”

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Author:Chaz Bundick

“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.”

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Author:Z'EV

“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.”

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Author:Matt Berninger

“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.”

Way Self Hard Conscious Screens Silly Self Conscious Standpoint Playing Music

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.”

Writing Tire Playing Music

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.”

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Author:Frank Fairfield

“I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.”

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Author:Frank Fairfield

“I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.”

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Author:Frank Fairfield

“I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.”

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Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.”

Want Made Sound Producers Playing Music

Author:Mark Linkous

“I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.”

Hate I Hate Entitlement Playing Music Crawling Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Joshua Homme

“I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.”

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Author:Greg Saunier

“I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.”

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Author:Bronson Arroyo

“I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.”

“I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.”

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Author:Lola Kirke

“If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.”

Thinking Knows College Calling Finished Playing Music Making A Living

Author:Terry Bozzio

“I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is what it is.”

College Playing Music It Is What It Is

Author:Chuck Mosley

“Knowing that I am out here, with a full open heart, travelling and living my dream with my guys playing music, that allows me to come home and be a better man, a better dad, knowing that I am fulfilling what I have always wanted to do.”

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Author:Granger Smith

“Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.”

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Author:Reggie Watts

“I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.”

Thinking Joy Music Is Playing Music Great Joy

Author:Norah Jones

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

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Author:Norah Jones

“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.”

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

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Author:Kesha

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

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Author:David Gilmour

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”

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Author:Gustav Mahler

“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.”

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Author:Steve Martin

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

Way Different Therapy Different Ways Playing Music

Author:Dave Matthews

“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.”

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Author:Ezra Miller

“The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.”

Thinking Way Happens Music Is Studios Playing Music

Author:Moby

“I love going on tour and playing music for people.”

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Author:Moby

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

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Author:Van Morrison

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

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