Playing Quotes
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
Mara Wilson -
It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
Philip Glass
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
Captain Beefheart -
There's something very special about playing Las Vegas, and I never tire of being here.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
Neil Peart Rush -
There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.
Emma Stone -
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
Lara St. John -
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
Beck -
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen -
The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I love playing odd roles.
Aaron Paul -
If there's beer flying at us, it's all good, brother. We started playing tiny redneck bars up in northern Canada where there's tons of beer flying and wire cage protecting the band and all sorts of stuff. So we're down with the party.
Adam Gontier Three Days Grace -
The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
J. J. Watt -
Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple -
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
Don't say nothing bout the old house. Cos I burned it to the ground. And when the darkness comes, I lie awake. Playing lost and found
Pete Yorn
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I've always loved playing live shows. I love traveling, seeing the country. I've made a lot of lifelong friends on the road at shows. It's so neat to see that so many of our fans have become friends. There are these nice little groups of "X People" everywhere.
Exene Cervenka -
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
Daniel Breaker -
I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
Barbara Sukowa -
And I like music, too, I like playing music.
Beau Bridges