Playing Quotes

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.