Play Quotes
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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Anthony's a gambler. Sometimes the play works. It's not a perfect science.
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To be honest, I would not want to put that band back together. I like the band I play with now.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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I thought they had one of top teams in the country before the season and after watching them play today, I still believe that. They are very physical and they are very deep.
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I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.
