Playing Quotes
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music
I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.
My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.
You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.
In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.
Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.
Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.
There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.
I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is what it is.
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
