"Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again."
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"The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles."
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"Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf."
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"I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music."
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"I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that."
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"I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life."
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"By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on."
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"I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band."
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"now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man"
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"You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts."
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"If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications."
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"If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations."
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"I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice."
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"Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong."
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"Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?"
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"How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?"
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"Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands."
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"Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter."
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"Jeremy, are we going to play your games?"
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