Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Herbie Hancock

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

Herbie Hancock

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Herbert Spencer

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Herbert Spencer

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Herbert Spencer

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Herb Ritts

To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

Herb Brooks

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

Herb Alpert

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

Herb Alpert

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Jean Paul Gaultier

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

Jillian Bell

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

Jill Scott

I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit, I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

Jill Scott

I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.

Jessica Hahn

Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to.

Jessica Chastain

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

Jerry Glanville

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

Jerry Garcia

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

Jeremy Bulloch

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

Jeremy Grantham

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because it's a company with certain attributes. They're buying because the price is rising. People are playing games not related to any concept at all of what the long-term value of the enterprise is. And they know it.

Esther Hicks

Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better.

Ernie Harwell

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

Ernie Harwell

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Eugene Chadbourne

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

Eugene Chadbourne

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

Ethel Merman

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Ethel Waters

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Erykah Badu

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

Ernest Newman

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.