Playing Quotes
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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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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Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
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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 certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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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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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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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
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I always get a kick out of playing Dog Days. Mainly because we wrote it together.
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
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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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I love playing Blair Cramer, and I'm thrilled to see what more they have in store for her. After playing this role for so many years, I still feel like there is so much about her that is still untold.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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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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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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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.
