Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ringo Starr

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Ringo Starr

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

Ringo Starr

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

Ringo Starr

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned...

Ringo Starr

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things. ...But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them. ...My soul is that of a drummer....It came to where I had to make a decision -- I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

Ringo Starr

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

Rihanna

I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.

Rick Astley

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the Luddites. Im happiest when Im behind the kit.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Tilda Swinton

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

Tiger Woods

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

Reggie Evans

It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.

Regina King

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

Reggie Jackson

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

Raymond Cruz

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Tom Kelley

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

Tom Holt

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Hooper

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Tom Jones

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

Toni Morrison

I don't do the things other people call "play."

Tommy Bolin

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

Tommy Bolin

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

Tommy Douglas

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

Tom Stoppard

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Tom Stoppard

Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

Tom Stoppard

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Tom Stoppard

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Tom Hardy

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

Tom Brady

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

Tom Brady

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Tom Brady

Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.

Tom Brady

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Tom Brady

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.