Play Quotes

• When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.

  

  Chip Kelly
  • Honor
  • Warrior
  • Shield

• Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

  

  David Elkind
  • Learning
  • Creative
  • Fundamentals

• 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.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Destiny

• We want to play. We weren't part of it.

  

  Nigel Harrison Blondie
  • Play
  • Part

• You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Smile
  • Motivational
  • Gymnastics

• I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Play
  • Band

• It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Firsts
  • Combination
  • Fingertips

• 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.

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Somehow
  • Sax-Man
  • Honker

• Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Why
  • American
  • Waiting

• I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I can play girls of any nationality, because I have a lot of foreign blood in me.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Play
  • Blood
  • Nationality

• I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

  

  Vincent Schiavelli
  • Pieces
  • Nine
  • Fables

• 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
  • Play
  • Drummer
  • Recognized

• And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lovers

• The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism.

  

  Steve Aoki
  • People
  • Reason
  • Ideas

• Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Exercise
  • Well Known
  • Visceral

• 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.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Style

• I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Screens

• 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.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Play
  • Hold
  • Modulate

• I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

  

  Red Grange
  • School
  • Football
  • Lines

• I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

  

  Vladimir Horowitz
  • Today
  • Style
  • Yesterday

• When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Audience

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