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.

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.

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture...

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.

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.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven’s fifth, because I love that.

No one’s playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest – try selling or donating them.

And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth between two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and...

I’d much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

What I don’t like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there’s no purpose to the scene other than to just be...

On the field I’m trying to play for the glory of God but then also I’m trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or...

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I’m playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

I’m interested in playing, not working.

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that’s what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got...

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I’ve always been that way in my playing, really.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Boheme,’ and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria ‘Donde Lieta Usci.’ The woman...

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig – 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance...

When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.

Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends...

When I was recording from ’70 to ’82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

When you’re playing in front of people, everything is external. It’s all going from you out to an audience. When you’re in a studio, it’s very internalised, it’s going from the air through you into...

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing – doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I...