Quotes About Performance

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.

I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That's why it's so addictive: because they just get into this state where they're just completely one - they are in complete oneness. That's what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

I'm really not one of those deejays who go, 'I play music that I like.' I play it for the crowd. I believe that's what a deejay should do.

I think it's everyone's dream to tour the world to play music.

My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.

When I'm on the road I get to read, play golf and do what I love to do - play music. Not a bad life.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

I didn't grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

I love Huma Qureshi. She was amazing in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' I also love Richa Chaddha. She played a mother in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' And then I saw 'Fukrey' where she played a gangster, and I couldn't believe it was the same girl.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.

I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that hang out together.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the entries. After Liszt, that was no longer the case; a conductor was someone who shaped the music in an intense musical way, who played the orchestra as an instrument.