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"I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that."
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"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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"Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!"
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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."
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"The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy."
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"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great."
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"I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person."
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"I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play."
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"In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on."
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"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great."
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"If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out."
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"Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following."
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"Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to."
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"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."
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"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
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"The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks."
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"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."
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"And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go."
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"I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me."
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"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."
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"It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid."
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"It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play."
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"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."
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"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."
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