Ringo Starr Quotes

We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...

Ringo Starr The Beatles

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• I'm not coming back to play.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Play
  • Back
  • Coming

• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Home
  • Man

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
  • Play
  • Style

• Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Band
  • Face
  • Lion

• I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Play
  • Like
  • Movies

• I've always refused to play terrorists.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Play
  • Always
  • Refused

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Play
  • Like
  • Last

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Play

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Football

• We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Play
  • Plan

• I want to play more festivals.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Want
  • Play
  • Festivals

• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Live
  • Song
  • Culture

• I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• Rehearsals make a huge difference.

  

  John Leguizamo

• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Instrument
  • Comfort Zone
  • Improvisation

• We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Play
  • Band
  • Open Door