I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.
When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.
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.
We love playing music but were too weird to play music.
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
Playing music is such a great way to bring people together.
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.
I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.
I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.
If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.
I love going on tour and playing music for people.
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.
When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.
The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
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.
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.
