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.

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

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.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don’t see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It’s a celebration, and a lot of people treat it...

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it’s one of those things where I wouldn’t...

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...

We all say, ‘You don’t have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.’

There’s nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It’s just so much fun.

In India, there’s a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It’s called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

When you’re performing, you’re playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we’re...

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

Playing with friends is a victory.

I’m not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing – that’s just one facet of my life.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I see a young man playing ‘Plaisir d’Amour’ on guitar. I knew I didn’t want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I...

I really do not think about ‘Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.’ I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in...

I’m almost tempted, when I’m playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and...

In 1972 through ’74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don’t know, a hundred bucks a night.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.

I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition—that’s what I’ve always wanted.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous...

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every...

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I...

The blame game is already a lost game, so don’t attempt dressing up to play it! Blames create no change; winners don’t apportion blames!

Part of an actor’s job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Robert Englund’s done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that’s a fan of ‘Nightmare’ loves Robert and you know so that’s a challenge when you’ve got to step in a big man’s...

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.