Play Quotes

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?