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Quotes About Playing

I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it took away my ability to sing with a range because it paralyzed my vocal chords, so that was when I started playing. But I hear the music as if I were singing even when I am playing.
~ Charlie Haden
Singing and playing live can be difficult. Like, in the studio, I would record either the music track first or the vocal first. I don't necessarily do them together.
~ Thundercat
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
~ Eric Clapton
I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give hostile voices disproportionate weight. To do everything we can to level the playing field.
~ Jared Cohen
In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
~ Chico Hamilton
When you're playing spot minutes, it's harder to hit those shots. But if you're getting volume shots, now it's a lot easier to get a rhythm.
~ Shaun Livingston
I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it's something that's important. It felt important to me. I guess it seems like a weight off my shoulders, because I've been playing a lot better than I've ever played before. I think I'm just enjoying myself, and I'm happy.
~ Megan Rapinoe
I think it's awesome. Playing here in Baltimore is a dream come true for me.
~ Steve Clevenger
I'm in love with Barcelona, life there is fantastic. It was my best period playing.
~ Ronald Koeman
If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
~ Kina Grannis
The thing about games is that you don't want to look too closely at why you're playing them. A great yawning emptiness underlies them, a close relative of the nothingness that lies beneath the surface of our busy lives.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
~ Jorges Luis Borges
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
~ Karen Traviss
I understand Pat Mahomes is off to a good start. I'm not ready to crown him four games into his career, but he's definitely playing well.
~ Booger McFarland
I'm playing against my peers, and if my peers respect me, that's all I can ask for.
~ D'Angelo Russell
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
~ Kim Gordon
Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards.
~ Piet Hein
Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.
~ Dean Cain
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
~ Yannick Noah
Every second I'm on the pitch for Wales is an honour, and I love playing.
~ Gareth Bale
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
~ Tammin Sursok