Playing Quotes - page 4

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. (Derek Bailey)
Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too. View quote
Freddie Hubbard
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. View quote
Fiona Shaw
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. View quote
Gene Tierney
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. View quote
Howard Staunton
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. View quote
Ian Botham
I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it. View quote
Karrie Webb
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed. View quote
Kelly Jones
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up. View quote
Leo Durocher
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. View quote
Leo Kottke
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. (Li Peng)
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. View quote
Lawrence Welk
After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way. View quote
Lee Konitz
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. View quote
Marian McPartland
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. View quote
Mary MacLane
I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going. View quote
Miroslav Vitous
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. View quote
Muddy Waters
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. View quote
Muddy Waters
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. (Norman Granz)
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that. View quote
Oscar Peterson
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. View quote
Rachel Griffiths
But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs. View quote
Richard Marx
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. View quote
Rick Derringer