Play Quotes

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.