Top 1200 Playing Jazz Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that's great.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were playing.

It's a Grand Slam. Everyone is playing to win, playing for themselves at the best level. They've prepared their best.

At Burnley, I'd enjoy myself with my missus and friends, but because at Tottenham we're playing Saturday-Tuesday, even Wednesday-Sunday, and with the intensity we play at, playing in the Champions League, we can't afford to have a night out.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

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

I love playing; I love playing good, and it's fun to be up around the top and having a chance.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

I was always an MMO fan. I'm playing 'World of Warcraft' in the clubhouse, and J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp saw me playing. They came over and got interested, and they wound up creating accounts.

My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn't like playing soccer that much.

My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I'm accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the league, I was used to fighting on the court. That's how I grew up playing basketball.

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

I'm very comfortable playing off-technique, playing press technique. I've just had to do it in so many different systems and switch up.

When you're playing once and then not playing for six games, I don't care what any footballer says, you don't feel involved. You don't feel part of the team.

I have never had more fun in my life playing a character than I've had playing Michael Langdon. He's so delicious. He's so layered and complicated.

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

It's nice to be settled and enjoying my football, the new experience, playing in the Champions League and all the things you dream about when you start playing football.

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

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.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

There wasn't really a lot of difference from a Mississippi perspective between what Elvis did on 'Mystery Train' or 'Milkcow Blues' or what Bill Monroe was playing or what Flatt and Scruggs was playing; it was rock 'n' roll to me.

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

Growing up I've been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn't say if I'm most comfortable there but that's where I grew up playing.

I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

When playing for Japan, it means that I carry my country on my shoulders and I feel a different kind of pressure as I am expected to do more when playing for Japan.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.

Trump is part of the reason you are suffering. Trump is the one playing on the not-so-level playing field where he wins and you lose.

The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.