Playing Quotes

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.

Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

I loved playing Darla.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.