Playing Quotes
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I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
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Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.
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We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
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Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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We are again playing a team above us on the points ladder.
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I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
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I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
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It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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I'm a live performer and I love playing live.
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We’re playing pretty damn well these days, and that’s fuel right there.
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When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.
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What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.
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I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.
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You've got to look at yourself as what I call a lifer. You're going to be out there playing music your whole life, in a live situation. That's what sends me out into the world, and as I see this beautiful world, I want to do more and contribute more, and stay in a position to do more and contribute more.
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After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.
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I am a predatory striker, ... That is why people say they would have liked to see us playing together. He does what he does outside the box and I would be inside waiting to get bits and that would have been good to see.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.
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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
