Playing Quotes

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

I watch so many movies and I find a lot of them very predictable, and also, a little bit playing it safe.

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

Imperial Teen is more like four people who like each other playing music.

My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

[Vernon Jordan] and [Bill] Clinton would be in the same golf cart, they'd been out there playing golf, and every other word, folks, was what people hate [Donald] Trump for today!

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

Whenever I'm around my guy friends, I'm always playing video games. I've always enjoyed the graphics side of them, how they look.

Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

Slash can take three notes and make a beautiful solo. And that's one thing I've always really admired about his guitar playing. I'm a huge Slash fan all around.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.