Playing Quotes
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From the beginning, there was going to be a reshuffling of the deck and we were going to be playing lot of young kids. I knew we might struggle early, but if we could develop as we went, we might be a good team come tournament time. Based on the way we've played the last couple of weeks, I think we've done that.
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You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
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When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.
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The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.
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Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.
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I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.
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This was a team that we were playing that has really improved as the season has gone on. They return a number of guys. They're going to be a force to be reckoned with in the very near future.
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I enjoy playing and singing as much today as I ever did. I don’t have to work, but I do it because it’s rewarding personally. I could live if I couldn’t do it anymore, but I truly enjoy it, and will do it for another couple years at least.
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I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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The next Led Zeppelin is playing somewhere, and they'll likely never make it because there's no infrastructure for it. They'll never get a chance.
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After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping playing football.
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My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.
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If you've been playing for a few years...especially in a group context... you'll see if you have the ability ... or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to ...and you've got to love ..no matter what happens.
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Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.
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You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.
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What he's doing now, he has proven he could do that over his whole career. He has worked hard to get back and now he's happy, healthy and used to playing the way he always has.
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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
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I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
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We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.
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You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.
