#play

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor. ↗

— Ray Walston

#got #i #kid #later #little

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend? ↗

— Julie Walters

#character #fat #friend #goes #happened

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#doing #every #instant #part #playing

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#band #blue #everyone #guitar #i

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#arena #big #either #everybody #go

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#could #dad #english #experience #guitar

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#instruments #involved #more #musician #often

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#back #full #fully #hundred #i

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#bass #bass player #i #i am #keep