Playing Quotes
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I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
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Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.
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If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.
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You’ve got to remember what your priorities are. When you’re playing, what you do on the field is the most important thing.
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I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.
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I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
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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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It probably was a fall and it swelled up on me. I kept playing on it. ... My doctors just said rest it as much as possible.
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I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.
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I don't want to sound over confident but I'm playing better than ever. I'm proud of that. I'm 70 years old this year. I'm still able to sing properly. I know how lucky I am for that. You do kind of worry that your voice is going to go. As a guitar player, I've improved over the years. I'm just proud of the fact that I've managed to keep going.
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A lot of the songs that we're playing live we haven't played in like 20 years
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For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.
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Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.
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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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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.
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If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.
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I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.
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Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
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If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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If we somehow could win a couple, our last 10 would be a very good record against top 20 teams. We have to keep grinding because that's what the Big Ten is about. We're playing against teams that beat us the first time, and we're trying to show we've improved by getting some of these guys on the way out.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
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I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.
