Playing Quotes
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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.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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There's something very special about playing Las Vegas, and I never tire of being here.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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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.
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I always get a kick out of playing Dog Days. Mainly because we wrote it together.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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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.
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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.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
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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.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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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.
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
