Top 1200 Playing Jazz Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing days were over, in order to maintain relevancy. I didn't want to become known for what I used to do.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

I don't care if X don't like X off the court... As long as you're on the court playing hard and playing for each other, that's all that matters to me.

I've always been a basketball player. My earliest memories are of playing basketball. I was born playing it. It's why I'm so comfortable on the floor.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

Blues is the first step to get to jazz.

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

The Premier League is the toughest in the world probably, there's not going to be an easy game. It is what I've dreamt of, so when I step onto that pitch I'm just playing how I want to play, playing with freedom and that is what the manager wants.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so that's the main reason I do that.

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since.

When the guy is too good - you know, playing clean and you're playing very bad, I mean not that good - you need to change.

There is nothing like playing in the actual games, compared to simulating it, working out, playing some five-on-five. It's not the same.

I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

I like to shop for old jazz albums.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

I love what I do, and if I'm playing for people who love what I'm doing, I don't really care, I'll keep playing till the cows come home.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Playing on different teams, playing all the different places I've played, the consistent thing is I'm always vocal and working hard.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

I started out playing football in the park with my dad. My dad was a bit of a ball player, but he couldn't really be bothered playing.