"The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant."

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"The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant."

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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Play, Life, Joy, Choice, Happiness

"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."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."

Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor

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"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."

Chet Baker, American Musician

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"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

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"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."

Jules Shear, American Musician

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"I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up."

Music, Pretty, Quick, Reading

"I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do."

People, Road, Song

"When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record."

Change, Time, End, Evening

"I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal."

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"We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great."

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"To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences."

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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

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"Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time."

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"When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies."

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"Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now."

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