I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct. – Gustavo Dudamel
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. – Harry Mathews
When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. – Helen Wills Moody
There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly. – Gary Carter
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. – Gerry Mulligan
I think it’s always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to. – Hayley Atwell
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. – Herb Alpert
I have always identified with Joan Didion’s depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading ‘Play It As It Lays,’ ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘The White Album.’ – Henry Rollins
It’s like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it’s going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there’s going to be Some action. – Harold Ramis
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn’t feel an affinity for them then they wouldn’t be particularly good performances. – Hugo Weaving
I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up. – Groucho Marx
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters. – Hugh Mackay
My characters aren’t losers. They’re rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else’s rules. – Harold Ramis
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies. – Harry Knowles
As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important. – Greg Wise
I’ve always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can’t play the guitar, but I can play the griddle. – Guy Fieri
A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn’t play neurotic women? – Geraldine Page
It’s fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system. – Goran Ivanisevic
Acted drama requires surrender of one’s self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. – George Pierce Baker
Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They’re just small details that can show you the way to play. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I don’t think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn’t get the sounds out always due to technical limitations – now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime. – Gary Lucas
You shouldn’t think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, ‘I can play this, and I can show you that.’ – Hiromi Uehara