Playing Quotes
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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
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Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.
Ray J
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I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.
Molly Bloom
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I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
Cate Blanchett
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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
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Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.
Stephen Hough
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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
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He signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing.
Barney Kessel
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Everybody evaluates their own situation as far as playing this game.
Eric Reid
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I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
George Wein
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There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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.
Eric Jacobson
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I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.
Eric Thomas
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I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
Johnny Giles
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It was awkward and embarrassing, but you have to go through things, ... I got through it and I'm happy it's over with and I can move forward and start playing.
Eddie Griffin
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I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
Eva Mendes
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We have got to get better on the bases. A lot of it is who we've got playing. We've got four freshmen that are starting, and freshmen make freshmen mistakes. There's some things we've got to learn from and get better. I think we will, but right now, I'll take the W.
Jamie Johnson
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I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.
Monica Dolan
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It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.
Dennis Green
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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.
Luke Shaw
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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