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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

Oscar Isaac

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

Peter Capaldi

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

St. Vincent

It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'

Trent Reznor

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

Win Butler

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Wynton Marsalis

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

Wynton Marsalis

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Willie Nelson

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Yanni

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

Viggo Mortensen

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.

Ari Graynor

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Jimmy Connors

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Patti Smith

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

Sandra Bullock

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Alejandro Amenabar

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

Charles Durning

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

Cameron Monaghan

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

Demian Bichir

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.

Eli Roth