Play Quotes
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Came Honker's trip to Slice City along about then: our sax-man got a neck all full of the sharpest kind of steel. So we were out one horn. And you could tell: we played a little bit too rough, and the head-arrangements Collins and His Crew grew up to, they needed Honker's grease in the worst way. But we'd been together for five years or more, and a new man just didn't play somehow. We were this one solid thing, like a unit, and somebody had cut off a piece of us and we couldn't grow the piece back so we just tried to get along anyway, bleeding every night, bleeding from that wound.
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Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.
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It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.
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For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.
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The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?
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Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.
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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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I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
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The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
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That's what it's all about. To play better. To win. There's nothing else to it.
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The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.
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If you hear something you're unable to play, then you have room to grow.
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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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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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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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That's why my wife doesn't play with me. I count her hand before she does.
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I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.
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When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.
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What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.
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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.
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We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
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I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
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At the end of the day, this is my goal and why I play for my country.
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I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
