Playing Quotes
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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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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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It says we're coming along, playing together, playing well. It's an exciting moment for us, for this family, for the whole organization.
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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
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Playing for the national team is always an honour. We must make the most of every opportunity.
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When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?
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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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We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.
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I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be covering kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.
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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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They really stepped it up. It wasn't so much that we had a let down. They just started playing better.
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.
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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
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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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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.
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Through all of the choke talk and everything else that was said, this team really stuck together when the chips were down and we weren't playing as well together as we knew we could. Everybody stuck together and nobody paid attention to that and we were all a unit, and it paid off in the end.
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How can you go wrong with playing around on a superhero show? Just the way that they do things and watching them do their thing was amazing to me. Also, superheroes are awesome!
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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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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.
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We definitely are playing better, but still have lapses. We still have a ways to go. As long as we go out with a high effort you never know.
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In this world, you’re either playing the game or you’re a pawn on the board.
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I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.
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I have a little daughter and my first boy is 19; he’s playing in a band of his own. But I missed a lot of his childhood in the '80s. It was album, tour, album, tour, then I’d be off again. "My lad is playing in a little group at the moment and they’re playing the stuff I used to play, the Cream stuff, the Hendrix stuff and old blues numbers!
