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“It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.” Clint Eastwood

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.” Clint Eastwood

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.” Jimi Hendrix

“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” Jimi Hendrix

“I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.” Jimi Hendrix

“When I die, just keep playing the records.” Jimi Hendrix

“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.” Jimi Hendrix

“When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.” Jimi Hendrix

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.” Mick Jagger

“I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.” Kim Kardashian

“If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.” Kim Kardashian

“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.” Stephen King

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” Immanuel Kant

“In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.” Rush Limbaugh

“Lyricists play with words.” Paul McCartney

“I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.” Paul McCartney

“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.” Paul McCartney

“None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.” Paul McCartney

“The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.” Paul McCartney

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

“I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.” Groucho Marx

“I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.” Steve Martin

“I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.” Steve Martin

“I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.” Steve Martin

“In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.” Steve Martin

“Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.” Steve Martin

“No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.” Steve Martin

“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.” Steve Martin

“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.” Barack Obama