Playing Quotes

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.'

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

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.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.