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In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.