Play Quotes
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That's occasionally what happens. What more often happens is that we settle on some sort of - a few sort of structural ideas, like, "Okay, when I put my finger up, we're all going to move to the extremes of our instruments. So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we're going to stay there until I take my finger down.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.
Richard Manuel
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We play for free. We get paid for waiting.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
Bertrand de Jouvenel -
Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
John Stuart Mill -
Music has pretty much taken over my life. I told my dad I wanted to play in a band and make lots of money. He told me I should get out of my fantasy world because it was a million-to-one chance. Now when I'm playing guitar or drums and he tells me to go do my studies, I tell him I can't--because I'm working. He just looks at me, shakes his head, laughs, and says, 'You lucky bastard.'
Ben Gillies Silverchair -
I was always a tomboy. I always wanted to be around the boys, always wanted to play sports - basketball, football, kickball, whatever it was. I was real aggressive. I wanted to be around the bros!
Young M.A
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We're trying to play our style of game. We just go out every night and try to work as hard as we can and do our thing.
Corey Perry -
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
Ethel Waters -
The one thing I always do is I always brush my teeth before I play. I don't know why.
Alex Gaskarth All Time Low -
When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.
David Sklansky -
When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.
Jack Roy -
I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
Helen McCrory
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I always want to go. If you don't go, I don't know, maybe they quit asking you. I love it. Any time I'm voted in, I don't care if it's the 20th in a row, I'm coming; I'll be right here and I'll play like I want to be here.
Champ Bailey -
When we win big games, our running backs play well.
Barry Alvarez -
Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
Edmund Blunden -
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
Tony Kushner -
I just want to play and do think at times I'm on a shorter leash. Sometimes I do think about playing elsewhere, but that's mostly when I'm frustrated and when stuff happens to my minutes and nobody has an explanation for it.
Eddy Curry -
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
Charlie Gehringer
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Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.
Angela Aki -
Obviously I wanted to play, but it's not easy to get into the team. My style doesn't fit into Simeone's ideas because he has a very defensive team.
Gelson Martins -
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
You wouldn't bring me in to do play-by-play if you were having a traditional booth.
Bob Golic