Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Hayes

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Henry Cavill

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

Heather Mitts

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

Henry David Thoreau

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Mary Timony

To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like that. The reason I like playing with Chad and Devin is that they're just really, really good musicians and good players. There's not a lot of sloppiness going on.

Patricia Briggs

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Pat Metheny

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

Pat Metheny

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

Pat Metheny

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

Pat Metheny

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Pat Riley

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

Pat Riley

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

Pablo Casals

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

Pablo Casals

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

Pablo Casals

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

Pablo Casals

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

Pablo Casals

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

Pablo Neruda

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Plato

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Plato

Life should be lived as play.

Plato

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Paul Weller

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

Paul Weller

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

Paul Weller

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten...

Paul Weller

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

Phil Hellmuth

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

Phil Knight

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Phil Jackson

I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

Phil Jackson

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

Phil Jackson

Make your work your play and your play your work.

Phil Jackson

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.