Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Alan Bennett

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Alan Bennett

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

Alan Ayckbourn

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

Alan Alda

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Al Sharpton

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Carl Andre

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Agnes Obel

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Billy Taylor

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Diana Krall

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Bill Gates

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Mark Smith

Unfortunately, I was hauling a piano on that one.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Edith Schaeffer

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

David Duchovny

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Ben Vereen

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Ben Stiller

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Barry Diller

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

Audre Lorde

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Denzel Washington

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Denis Leary

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.