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"I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn."
"Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play."
"In practice, I run every play like I'm scoring a touchdown."
"The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them."
"Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!"
"Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water."
"The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night."
"It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome."
"Leave your ego, play the music, love the people."
"Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds."
"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."
"What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it."
"The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage."
"I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through."
"It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like."
"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
"I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive."
"When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words."
"I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat."
"Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages."
