#aye

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#best #greats #guitar #guitar player #i

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. ↗

— Janis Ian

#everybody #guitar #i #played #playing

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men. ↗

— James Iha

#dynamic #front #had #i #men

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet. ↗

— Scott Ian

#around #best #care #could #day

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player. ↗

— James Iha

#becoming #better #could #day #decision

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that. ↗

— James Iha

#being #big #easier #guitar #guitar player

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distance #god #greater #man #prayer

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#actor #band #busy #forgot #getting

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#cast #easy #easy way #gangster #get