Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruggiero Ricci

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Ruggiero Ricci

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

Rufus Wainwright

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

Roy Ayers

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Roy Ayers

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Roy Ayers

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

Roxane Gay

I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

Robert Jordan

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

Robert Patrick

I want to give [my records] all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!

Wallace Stevens

The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

Vivien Leigh

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Vivien Leigh

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

Vivien Leigh

I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

Vivien Leigh

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Vince Young

I can make things happen when plays break down.

William Hogarth

I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.

William Herschel

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

William Howard Taft

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

Will Wright

The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.

Will Wright

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players,

Will Wright

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

Willa Cather

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Will Smith

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

Warren Buffett

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

Warren Buffett

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

Warren Buffett

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

Vladimir Horowitz

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

Vladimir Kramnik

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

Vladimir Kramnik

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Vladimir Kramnik

Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.

Vladimir Kramnik

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.