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3237 Played quotes by 2412 unique authors
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
— Gilbert Highet
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Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their…
— John Desmond Bernal
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... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a…
— Eric Clapton
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In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and…
— Ry Cooder
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Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted individual giving his…
— Richard Betts
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... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael…
— Barry Goldberg
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... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top…
— Eddie Van Halen
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... I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on…
— Dimebag Darrell
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Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
— David Crosby
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... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded…
— Unknown Author
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Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived,…
— Unknown Author
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... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco…
— Jeff Baxter
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... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's…
— Albert Lee
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Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the…
— Chet Atkins
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The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined…
— Michael Parenti
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It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived…
— Ed Sheeran
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As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it…
— Helen Clark
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is…
— Rafael Palmeiro
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We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw…
— Bon Scott
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We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
— Michael Hutchence
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You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into…
— Gregg Allman
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At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that…
— Gregg Allman
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There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane.…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the…
— Chester W. Nimitz
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What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindlyplant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over it,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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