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Quotes About Play

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
~ Mother Teresa
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
~ Rene Auberjonois
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
~ Alison Gopnik
It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.
~ Robert Duvall
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
~ Mira Sorvino
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
~ Beth Henley
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
~ Jack Black
I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'
~ Colin Angle
We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.
~ Young-Ha Kim
When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.
~ Jane McGonigal
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
~ Walter Rauschenbusch
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.
~ Edward Boyden
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
~ Carl Jung
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Life and love go on, let the music play.
~ Johnny Cash
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
~ Mark Twain
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
~ Charlie Parker
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
~ James Taylor
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
~ Maynard James Keenan
...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.
~ Robert Hunter
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
~ Maurice Ravel
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
~ Tre Cool
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
~ B. B. King