Playing Quotes
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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.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
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I started playing frat parties at Cornell. I would just play four-hour shows, mostly cover songs. At first everybody would get a drink while I played my own songs, but that started to change, I liked playing music; I didn't like school. I transferred to NYU to be closer to home and to be closer to the music scene.
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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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There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.
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I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova.
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I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.
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No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.
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I'm disappointed with myself. I went on to the (NHLPA) website where there's the (absentee-ballot) form to download and fill out. I was all ready to do it, but I missed the (deadline). I feel for the guys playing down in the States. Down there, you get no news about Canada.
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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I loved playing a character that women fancied.
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Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.
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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
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I think it's just a complete thing of everybody just playing together and also myself just finding a rhythm out there on the floor and making shots. Just finding your rhythm. As you've seen, the last couple of games I've found it.
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Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
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I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
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I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
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We're a different team when he's playing like that.
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Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.
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When I'm playing a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.
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I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"
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I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.
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Actually, it's pretty enjoyable. Playing in a new place every year you get to experience something new, and in this game you definitely don't want to go back to where you were the year before.
