Quotes About Joy

I always play music at home, every day I grab a guitar and start riffing.

Having the opportunity to play music as a career is a dream come true.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the player when they overcome these challenges.

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

I want happiness for the players.

I like when life feels playful.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

Fashion should be playful.

People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

What I feel for the ball, what I enjoy, as a player and now as a coach, the satisfaction I feel when I see great players, is the same as in the school playground: seeing moves build, seeing understanding, passes flow, seeing it all fit together. That's what I admire and ultimately, that's what you learn at school.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums, and I love music.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

We have music playing at home, day and night.

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.