Playing Quotes

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.