Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Clapton

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

Eric Clapton

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

Eric Clapton

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

Eric Clapton

I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

Eric Clapton

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

Enya

I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.

Elvis Costello

When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

Jason Newsted

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

Jason Newsted

I don't play video games.

Jason Spezza

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

Jason Schwartzman

I have never stopped playing music

Jason McAteer

Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park

Jason Momoa

There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.

Jason Momoa

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.

Jason Mraz

I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.

Hines Ward

People really appreciate the way I play.

Hines Ward

As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

Hilary Swank

I like to play women who blaze trails.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Evelyn Glennie

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Evgeny Morozov

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Eva Mendes

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

Evan Esar

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Eugene Jarvis

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Israel Horovitz

I don't direct the plays of others.

Isabelle Huppert

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug

Ion Tiriac

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

Ion Tiriac

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

Ilie Nastase

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

Ikue Mori

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Jack London

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

Jack Nicklaus

I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived.

Jack Nicklaus

Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.