Quotes About 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.

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

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.

I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can't be that kind of musician, I'll drive a cab.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.

I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

Pearl Jam's 'Alive' is the reason I started to play music.

A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That's why it's so addictive: because they just get into this state where they're just completely one - they are in complete oneness. That's what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.

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.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once.

I used to not really know any other people when I was young that wanted to play music - that's why I learned everything myself. As a result, you kind of naturally become an engineer of sorts, because you've got to learn how to record everything.

I dropped out of school at 17 'cause all I wanted to do was play music. I had odd jobs on the side of gigging until I turned 22, when I was lucky to start doing this full time.

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

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

I want to go out, play music and have a good time.

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

I'm really not one of those deejays who go, 'I play music that I like.' I play it for the crowd. I believe that's what a deejay should do.

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

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

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.