Quotes About Playing

I'm enjoying the Premier League; I'm enjoying playing for Southampton - I love the club, and I love the supporters.

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.

It's a big surprise for me because if somebody asked me when I was playing if Frank Lampard would be a manager, I would say no because he's very quiet.

I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.

It's so surreal for us to be playing at Tynemouth Castle. It couldn't be much closer to home. I've got so many mad stories of us all running around here as kids, and it's mental that we're going to be playing at an actual castle!

You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable.

Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.