Playing Quotes

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

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

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.