Player Quotes
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
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We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work.
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I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
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It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
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I was a tennis player in high school and college.
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I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
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I was a born rock n' roll sax player.
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I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.
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Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
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The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
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People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.
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I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.
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I think every time I step on the court, I'm just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.
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I'm a player, or I'm a person who needs to practice a lot; otherwise, I don't play well.
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As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don't want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way.
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I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
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When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.
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Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
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When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
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C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
