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


"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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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."


"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."


"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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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."


"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great."
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"I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious."


"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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"And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go."


"He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total."
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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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"We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song."


"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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"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."


"I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person."


"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."


"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."


"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."
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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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"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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"If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric."


"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great."


"I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!"
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"If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out."


"Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang."
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