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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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"I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated."
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"You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!"
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"And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!"
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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."
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"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."
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"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."
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"If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore."
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"Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to."
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"An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens."
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"You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game."
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"We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal."
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"A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."
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"Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band."
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"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."
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"I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record."
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"We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals."
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"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play."
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"I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it."
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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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"We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice."
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