Playing Quotes
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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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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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I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.
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As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.
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As long as it's a level playing field, we're open to compete with them any time and anywhere.
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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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If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.
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I'm playing so well lately that I have a lot of confidence.
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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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As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers full of gear, and playing stadiums. In the '90s, that's what we did.
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If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
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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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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
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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 love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.
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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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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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Networks are operating from a fear base where it's all about playing the popularity game.
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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.
