Playing Quotes
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I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
Richard Price
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We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.
Aaron Rowand
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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
Steve Swallow
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It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to put a stamp on it and send it out there, but even after recording it, when you're playing it live, you hear different harmonies, you hear different notes, you hear different tempos or peaks and valleys in the song.
Chuck Ragan
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I've never been one for widdly woos and widdly wah wahs, so I haven't had the desire to learn the more technical aspects of playing. Just write better riffs, I suppose.
Paul Mullen
The Automatic
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I have to say that sports is what kept me out of trouble. No matter the circumstances, my mom kept us playing sports. She worked hard to provide for us and even harder to make sure we always stayed active. Whether it was football or basketball, we were playing one sport or another year-round.
Rashard Lewis
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I don't think the loss will make us play any harder. If you aren't playing hard at this point, then you aren't going to be playing hard anyway.
Allen Iverson
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Traditionally, when we lived here in Portland, we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.
Mo Collins
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I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries ... For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.
Adolf Eichmann
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I started playing in a band when I was eleven years old. We did a three piece, and we started playing instrumentals.
Bobby Balderrama
Question Mark & the Mysterians
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Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
Thomas Carlyle
