Quotes with sitar-playing

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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Buddy Rich I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Becki Newton I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Butch Trucks I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Benny Green I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bea Arthur I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Bratt I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Shankly If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • B. D. Wong If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Billy Higgins If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Bill Parcells If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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