Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Bowie

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

Lester Bowie

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

Lester Bowie

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

Lester Bowie

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Lester Bowie

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

Friedrich Schiller

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

George Farquhar

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

Jon Landau

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

Jon English

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Jon English

I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.

Johnny Winter

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it

Johnny Winter

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Jon Bon Jovi

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

Jon Bon Jovi

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Johnny Unitas

Talk is cheap, let's go play.

Johnny Ramone

The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

Johnny Damon

Without chiropractic, I wouldn't be able to play consistently throughout the season.

Johnny Damon

I just go out and play.

Johnny Damon

There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.

Johnny Christ

I'm Johnny Christ, and I play the tambourine.

Luigi Pirandello

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

Luc Ferrari

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

John Coltrane

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

John Cleese

The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

John Cleese

It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

John Cleese

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Lupe Ontiveros

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah,

Luther Allison

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

Luther Allison

I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.

Luther Allison

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

Luther Allison

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

Lupita Nyong'o

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Lupe Fiasco

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.