What does this sentence mean?
And I don't think of it as playing so much as hugging.

From Inside-Out (a movie).(The context: Joy is playing an accordion.)
Anger:Do you have to play that?
Joy:Well, I have to practice .And I don't think of it as playing so much as hugging.

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What does this sentence mean?
And I don't think of it as playing so much as hugging.

From Inside-Out (a movie).(The context: Joy is playing an accordion.) 
Anger:Do you have to play that?
Joy:Well, I have to practice .And I don't think of it as playing so much as hugging.

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And I don't think of it as playing so much as HUGGING > I don't think of it as playing , but  just hugging.

If you say that something is not so much one thing as something ​else, you ​mean it is more the second thing: They're not so much ​lovers as ​FRIENDS/ I don't ​feel ​angry so much as ​SAD.

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I tried finding quotes from movie and couldn't find it. I just watched it and didn't remember this ; although, I was also doing other things in the so I might have missed it.

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What is the context? I need to know what they're talking about to understand it better

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