Play Quotes
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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Always treasure the opportunity. He's got another opportunity to play again when he's 28, 29. Enjoy it. Enjoy it while you can.
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I went right out, got a bass and learned how to play it. I stayed inside the whole time during Christmas break until I could come out and join the band.
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He gets fired up a lot, but he loves the game. He wants us to do well but for ourselves. He always has us ready to play.
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We came out flat in the third quarter. I think we thought it was OK to play them a good half.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.
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When it's done, that's the right time. When it happens, I'm sure it will catch me off-guard and I'll be happy. And if it doesn't happen, I'll have to do what I have to do. I just want to put on the uniform and do what I do. It's the fans that make me play the way I play. When I get the energy out of right field, especially in the Yankees uniform, those fans make me do what I do. I couldn't have played with one arm in Colorado. You can't motivate me enough to do that. Only the Yankees fans bring that out of me.
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We didn't play as well as we can and we're not getting carried away.
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We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.
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I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.
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I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.
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I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
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Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
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When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.
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We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
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If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
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I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.
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I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"
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Play with me and you play with fire.
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There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
