playing quotes

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

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 got my buzz from playing.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.