#laying

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #atmosphere #certain #closeness #clubs

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#actually #canal #career #decisions #i

I got tired of playing other people's songs. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#i #other #people #playing #songs

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#affect #composition #comprises #conscious #content

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#end #entire #fun #hysterically #laughing

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it. ↗

— Young Buck

#around #i #just #playing #rapping

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#buck #day #guy #happy #him

Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him. ↗

— Wolfgang Petersen

#brad #brad pitt #day #him #his