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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."
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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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"Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to."
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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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"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
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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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"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 listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out."
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"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."
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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."
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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."
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"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"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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"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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"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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"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."
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