After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird’, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled...

I don’t know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it’s always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and...

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

I’m ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed – I can’t do it. I’m clueless.

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It’s been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it’s going to up...

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn’t know that at first.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I’m proud of the work, playing Gates.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger...

I don’t care who’s playing. Even if it’s my favorite artist, I’m probably not gonna go and see him.

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.

You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

However, I don’t by any means suggest that I’m always playing myself.

I can’t even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It’s not about the musical ideas – the sound itself is toxic. It’s like eating plastic broccoli.

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out… otherwise, you just get the back of someone’s...

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It’s almost like playing five different roles.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you’re not playing, or something goes...

When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I’m not gonna go around playing ‘You Enjoy Myself’ for the rest of my life.

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.

I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

When you are happy and playing regular football, that can make life a lot easier.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that’s my first passion.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I’m so far removed from live playing any more.

I hadn’t been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a...

I’d got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that’s it. It’s no different than playing in clubs.

Even I don’t know myself… In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real...

I’ve made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.

I have a penchant for playing God’s clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God’s clown.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I’m not caught up in defining the type of music...

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It’s definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn’t have any money.

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted...

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it’s natural to experiment.

For any actor, when you’re playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same,...

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

I feel that through my father’s music I’ve found my own voice in my own playing.

When you’re first starting out, there’s always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you’ve gotta back off that gain control...

As long as I have teeth, I’ll keep playing. You can’t play trumpet without teeth.

I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I’m always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals – lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched...

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they’d be...

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love ’em both equally.

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.