Playing Quotes
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To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.
Alan Alda -
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.
Eddy Curry
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Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't
Catherine Cox -
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
Alexander Ovechkin -
Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
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.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
Josh Silver -
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?
John Corabi Mötley Crüe
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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.
Cedric Gervais -
I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.
Joseph David-Jones -
I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.
Nicole Kidman -
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
Evan Parker -
When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.
Johnny Gimble
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I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.
Albert Belle -
Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
Alastair Cook -
I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot -
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Plutarch -
When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.
Candace Pert
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The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls -
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.
Chris Chambliss -
The United States is actually playing catch up to China.
Christiana Figueres -
Playing a villain in a comic show, there's a thin line that you have to be careful not to step over.
Casper Crump