#play

Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men! ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#demands #doing #like #married #married men

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#approach #being #being the best #best #best way

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#alienation #did #father #great #his

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#depth #easier #far #feeling #forces

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#catch #death #energy #energy level #felt

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches. ↗

— Doug Collins

#coaches #fragile #grow #grow up #one thing

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#brings #come #did #get #good

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#eight #i #playing #started #trumpet

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. ↗

— Jack Brymer

#clarinet #imperfections #instrument #never #overcome

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#because #love #music #play #play music