Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Bob Dylan

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright.

Bob Dylan

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

Billy Casper

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

Billy Crudup

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Billy Corgan

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

Bon Scott

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

Bobby Fischer

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Bobby Fischer

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

Bobby Fischer

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Bobby Fischer

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

Bobby Fischer

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

Bobby Fischer

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Bobby Fischer

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it

Bobby Fischer

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

Bobby Fischer

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

Bobby Fischer

I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.

Bobby Fischer

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Bruce Dern

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

Bruce Dickinson

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

Bruce Froemming

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Brigitte Bardot

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

Bruce Springsteen

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

Brian Urlacher

Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

Brian Urlacher

If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.

Brian Setzer

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

Brian Setzer

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

Brian Setzer

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

Brian Jordan

I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see.