Play Quotes

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong

I don't play the tuba.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.

Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

I have a glove. I'll play anywhere.

I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.