Play Quotes
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My one ambition is to play a hero.
Sessue Hayakawa
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One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
Oscar Wilde
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We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
James Boswell
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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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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
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Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
George Washington
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We hope that the state department comes through. We would be disappointed if Cuba didn't play.
Bob DuPuy
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I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
Kiefer Sutherland
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Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage.
Ed Macauley
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
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My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
Etta James
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Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
Henry Winkler
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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That's the beautiful part about acting - you get to play somebody other than yourself. So, I'm open to people who can't sing, people who can, people that sing a little bit, or people that sing a lot.
Brandy
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I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.
Al Pacino
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The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
William O. Douglas
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I think the biggest challenge for drummers is knowing what not to play. Everybody wants to be recognized, but in a three-minute pop song it’s hard to be recognized if you’re the drummer—and you have to be okay with that.
Paul Doucette Matchbox Twenty
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I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.
David Essex
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We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.
Van Morrison
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
Erykah Badu
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Many children from troubled families have difficulty relaxing and having fun. Ability to be spontaneous and to play is a need and a characteristic of our Child Within.
Charles L. Whitfield
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Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
David Elkind
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Play fast, play smart, play aggressive, bring energy!
Bob Sanders