Playing Quotes

If you're out there day after day, going around playing the same places, you pretty much think you've reached your audience. But there's more people finding my music every day.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

I have more fun playing Hannah, because I like to sing and dress up.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. I used to wonder whether I'm a genius or I'm not, which is it? I used to think, well, I can't be mad, because nobody's put me away, therefore, I'm a genius. A genius is a form of madness, and we're all that way, you know, and I used to be a bit coy about it, like my guitar playing.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.