John Sykes Quotes
Phil left such an incredible legacy of music, there's hours of great stuff. We're gonna play all the hits and some classic album tracks. We got together to play, and it didn't sound too bad. In fact it sounded great and it was a lot of fun.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
-
I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
-
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
-
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
-
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
-
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.
-
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
-
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
-
Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
-
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
-
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
-
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
-
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
-
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
-
The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
-
I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
-
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
-
The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
-
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
-
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
-
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.
-
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
-
Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
-
Phil left such an incredible legacy of music, there's hours of great stuff. We're gonna play all the hits and some classic album tracks. We got together to play, and it didn't sound too bad. In fact it sounded great and it was a lot of fun.
