Playing Music Quotes

I love playing music no matter where it is.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

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.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

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.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

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

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.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

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.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

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

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

I've been playing music most of my life.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.