Play Quotes

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.