Tommy Aldridge is the guy that made me wanna play double kick, man.
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.
Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.
Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
All the players in the league, I think, want to play for trophies, want to get trophies.
It's totally fun to play troublemakers - totally.
I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
I don't play the tuba.
I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.
Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.
