Play Quotes
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To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
Allen Toussaint -
One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.
Thomas Sowell
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What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong -
The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
Kate Bush -
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
Keith Moon The Who -
One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
Tony Kushner -
You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.
Glenn Tipton Judas Priest -
I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
Taron Egerton
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I'm here to play football.
Colin Kaepernick -
I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.
Halsey -
It can't be the bus ride there takes longer than the games we play. That's what usually happens.
George Fisher Cannibal Corpse -
I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
Irina Shayk -
You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.
Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
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My one ambition is to play a hero.
Sessue Hayakawa -
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
Ian Bogost -
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
Larry Hagman -
I play a nobody in Japan.
Jackie Chan -
It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
Cam Gigandet -
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
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I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.
Jacki Weaver -
We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
Pat Quinn -
You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.
Lamont Dozier -
...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead