#playin

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#biggest influence #bud #influence #piano #playing

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#becoming #friends #going #i #i think

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#doing #everything #fun #going #healthy

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing. ↗

— Joel Siegel

#days #especially #film #good #good thing

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it. ↗

— Joel Silver

#about #because #did #evolved #frisbee

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. ↗

— Nate Silver

#curve #develop #games #kind #learning

You get steely nerves playing poker. ↗

— Nate Silver

#nerves #playing #poker #steely #you

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#audience #been #black #black and white #come

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night. ↗

— Slash

#around #chasing #comes #connect #emotional