"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."

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"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."

Allan Sherman, American Musician

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"I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it."

Jackson Browne, American Musician

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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

Gary Oldman, English Actor

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"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."

Buddy Rich, American Musician

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"Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes."

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"When I started out, all I did was play my trombone."

Ray Conniff, American Musician

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"So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."

Buddy Rich, American Musician

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"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."

Van Morrison, British Musician

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"The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation."

Brian Eno, British Musician

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"So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well."

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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

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"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

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"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

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"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

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"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."

"I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it."

"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."

"Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes."

"When I started out, all I did was play my trombone."

"So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."

"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."

"The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation."

"So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well."

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"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."