Playing Quotes

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

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.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.