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Xavier Cugat

"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."

Xavier Cugat, Spanish Musician
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"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

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"I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up."

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"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."

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"When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that."

Kerry King, American Musician
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"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."

Rick Wakeman, British Musician
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"I don't get called very often to play innocents."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor
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"After you play a part, you think of it as your own."

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"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."

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"The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so."

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