Playing Quotes

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

I have always been writing but when I started rapping I was just playing around. My friends told me I needed a rap name like Breezy or G-Eazy so I went with Dreezy.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.

I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

Don't over analyze your relationships.

Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.