Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emanuel Ax

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

Emanuel Ax

I usually only play with very close friends.

Emanuel Ax

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Emanuel Ax

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Elvis Presley

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Ellie Goulding

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

Ellen Hopkins

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Elisabeth Shue

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

Elaine Paige

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

John Corigliano

If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

John Conyers

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

Joel Miller

Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

Joan Crawford

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

Joan Crawford

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Jimmy Hill

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

Jimmy Rollins

If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

Jimmy Rollins

The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.

Jimmy Page

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

Jimmy Page

I bet you can't play slide piano.

Jim Thome

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.

Jim Thome

You can't play forever.

Lou Lamoriello

I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

Louie Anderson

When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.

Lou Reed

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

Lou Reed

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

Lou Reed

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

Manu Ginobili

I learned how to play against players better than me.

Manu Ginobili

You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.

Mao Zedong

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

Madeline Zima

I would be happy to play any roles.

Lucy Lawless

Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.