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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."


"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."



"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."


"When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it."



"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."


"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."



"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
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"He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not."


"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."


"I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult."
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"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."



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


"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."


"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special 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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"We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song."


"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."
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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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"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze."


"I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play."
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"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."


"No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard."


"As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role."
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"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."



"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."



"We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened."
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