Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mstislav Rostropovich

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

Muddy Waters

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

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.

Maria Bello

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Mark V. Hurd

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Mark Knopfler

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

Mariana Klaveno

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

Marian McPartland

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

Marian McPartland

I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

Mike Candrea

Practice like it's a game; play the game like it's practice.

Mickey Mantle

When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

Mickey Mantle

I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.

Nicholas Breton

Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

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.

Naomi Watts

That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

Mitchell Reiss

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Miriam Makeba

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

R. D. Laing

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Prescott Bush

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

Portia de Rossi

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.

Lita Ford

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

Lita Ford

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record

Leonard Slatkin

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

Oscar Wilde

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Paul Robeson

Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

Paul Robeson

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Patrick Rothfuss

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Parker Stevenson

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

Page McConnell

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.