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"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."


"We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice."



"The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy."
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"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly."


"I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me."


"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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"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."
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"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."


"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."


"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze."


"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."


"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 used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
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"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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"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."


"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."
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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
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"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."
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"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."


"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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"We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist."
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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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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."


"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."



"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
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