Quotes About Music

I believe it's important to put all of your energy into what you're doing rather than doing an office job and trying to muster up energy for music. It's been a real blessing to play music full time.

I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and he and my mom encouraged me to start again.

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

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

I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn't always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.

I always play music at home, every day I grab a guitar and start riffing.

When I'm on the road I get to read, play golf and do what I love to do - play music. Not a bad life.

Having the opportunity to play music as a career is a dream come true.

All my life I only wanted to write and play music, but it took a long time to make a go of it, and I was one of the lucky ones!

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.