Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Frusciante

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

John Frusciante

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

John Frusciante

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

John Evelyn

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

John Fahey

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

John Entwistle

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

John Entwistle

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Densmore

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

John Elkington

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

John Eldredge

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

John McGraw

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

John Millington Synge

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Desmond Bernal

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Dewey

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.

John Carpenter

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

John Carpenter

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

John Battelle

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

John Berger

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

John Astin

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

Johan Cruijff

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Johan Cruijff

Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs

Johan Cruijff

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Johan Cruijff

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

Johan Cruijff

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

Johan Huizinga

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Joel Kinnaman

I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

Joe Lando

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

Joe Jonas

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Joe Klein

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

Joan Rivers

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Jimmy Smits

It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.

Jimmy Fallon

They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.