#laying

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. ↗

— Andy Summers

#establishing #going #important #playing #prime

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#get #gets #guitar #hope #i

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. ↗

— Keith Richards

#buttons #comes #death #going #good

You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#consistently #goals #hard #i #just

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#house #like #me #playing #sounded

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#ask #because #believe #censorship #character

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with. ↗

— John Sebastian

#band #bee #had #i #i am

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #anymore #bridge #card #even