Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Schenker

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

Michael Rapaport

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

Michael Rapaport

Only a genius can play a fool.

Michael Nesmith

If you love music, you can play music.

Michael K. Simpson

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

Markus Zusak

The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

Maria Bello

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Mark V. Hurd

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Mark Knopfler

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

Mark Knopfler

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience...

Mariana Klaveno

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

Marian McPartland

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

Marian McPartland

I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

Mike Candrea

Practice like it's a game; play the game like it's practice.

Mickey Mantle

When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

Mickey Mantle

I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.

Mickey Mantle

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Nicholas Breton

Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

Neelie Kroes

It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

Ned Colletti

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Naomi Watts

That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

Mitchell Reiss

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Miriam Makeba

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

R. D. Laing

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Prescott Bush

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.