Quotes of: Guitar-playing Keyword

I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

Karen DeCrow

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Leonard Bacon

I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art ...

Matt Schulze

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

Neil Peart

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

Robert Schumann

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Yo Mama’s so ugly, her Mama had to tie a steak around her neck to get the dogs to play with her.

155 World's Funniest YO MAMA Jokes

Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.

1Q84

The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

The Angel's Game

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

The Age of Innocence

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.

Arcadia

If one plays with fire, one should be prepared to burn, Jane.” “You say that as if I’m in danger from you.” “Maybe you are,” Tobias growled as the scent of her invaded his nostrils...

His Mistress

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

I Still Believe

In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

I Learn from Children

I drink coffee like other men play basketball. I drink like a woman, and that’s why I use a slightly smaller ball.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.

The Idiot

Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

The Iron King

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

If You Could See Me Now

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays