Playing Quotes

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.