#laying

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. ↗

— Evan Parker

#came #decision #discovered #doors #having

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. ↗

— Evan Parker

#different #different things #difficult #enough #even

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations. ↗

— Evan Parker

#aspects #certain #could #developed #elements

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin! ↗

— Alan Parsons

#gates #god #had #kremlin #oh

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#doing #either #had #i #job

You only get better by playing. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#get #only #playing #you

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#guitar #guitar playing #i #much #music

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#believe #come #created #enjoy #failure

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#ball #got #i #me #off