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I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.