Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Jones

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

Toni Morrison

I don't do the things other people call "play."

Tommy Bolin

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

Tommy Bolin

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

Tommy Bolin

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

Tommy Douglas

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

Tom Verlaine

The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

Tom Verlaine

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

Tom Stoppard

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Tom Stoppard

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

Tom Stoppard

Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

Tom Stoppard

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Tom Stoppard

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Rebecca Lobo

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

Rebecca Loos

I am seriously considering it.

Vilfredo Pareto

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

Vin Diesel

The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.

Victoria Smurfit

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

Victoria Legrand

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

Victoria Moran

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Victor Cruz

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

Victor Garber

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Victor Borge

And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.

Vernon Davis

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

Robert Fripp

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

Robert Frost

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Robert Frost

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Robert Frost

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Rick Perlstein

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

Rick Nielsen

I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

Rick Nielsen

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

Rick Neuheisel

I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M.

Richard Thompson

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.