Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miles Davis

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

Miles Davis

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

Miles Davis

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

Miles Davis

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

Joseph Addison

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

Joseph Addison

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Jose Reyes

I put the ball in play. That's what I want.

Jose Mourinho

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

Jorge Valdano

You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme.

Jonny Wilkinson

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all,

Jonny Gomes

I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.

Joni Mitchell

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

Kevin Spacey

I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.

Kevin Spacey

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

Kevin Spacey

The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Kevin Conroy

Life deals your hand and you play it.

Kelley Armstrong

Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Julian Casablancas

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

Mark E. Smith

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Mary Lou Williams

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Pierre Corneille

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Philip Yancey

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Pedro Martinez

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Les Paul

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Joseph Campbell

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

Joseph Pilates

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.