Play Quotes

If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

Play the hand you're dealt.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I know my role and I play it well.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.