Playing Quotes

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

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.

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

It's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4 , 5 , 6 under par probably.

We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.