Playing Quotes

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.

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

The beauty of playing together is meeting in the One.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

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.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.