Playing Quotes

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

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.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.