#laying

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#grow #old #playing #quit

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty. ↗

— John Howard

#difficulty #god #her #i #majesty

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#bass player #bass players #compliment #fingers #great

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

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#dislike #either #even #i #know

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#anymore #audience #back #cd #classical

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#insecurity #playing #safe #utmost #world

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music. ↗

— Ben Harper

#i #insult #life #love #music

I love being on the road, I love playing. ↗

— Ben Harper

#i #i love #love #playing #road

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗

— Ian Hart

#convention #dads #desire #drama #fathers