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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."
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"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."
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"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."
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"I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."
Music
"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
Education
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
Books
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
Criticism
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
Opinion
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
Age
"The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent."
Movies
"There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something."
American
"I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music."
Music
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