Quotes About Music

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

It's always fun to play the hometown.

It's about knowing how to make a groove happen and keep it going so others can play off it.

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I just play drums, mate.

Obviously, the big hits like 'Shout,' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' 'Head Over Heels,' we play live, so there's nothing new about them to me.

I love to play gigs.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

I always knew I would do music. At first, I wanted to play basketball, and when I let go of that dream when I was 11, I pretty much knew I was going to be in music.

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.

Most footballers play golf for five or six hours. I'd rather play my saxophone. I get out to gigs when I can.