#playing

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. ↗

— Phil Collins

#american #american history #around #being #came

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#about #accomplish #all day #band #classes

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down! ↗

— Flavor Flav

#burn #child #did #down #fire

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #being there #character #extended #go

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that. ↗

— Chick Corea

#band #drums #enjoy #guitar #i

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#beginning #character #characteristics #displaying #else

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#agree #ambition #because #coming #connected

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards. ↗

— Dick Dale

#coming #i #just #know #never

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one! ↗

— Tyne Daly

#because #become #becoming #good #i

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#being #biggest #biggest thing #fun #having