“Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.” DifferentPlayBeautifulSupportGoneCollegeNeededGladPianoMusclesScholarshipDifferent ExperiencesFlexing Author:Jamie Foxx
“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.” WantPlayWantedPlayerNeededBaseballTeammateOpposingSpotlight Author:Bruce Sutter
“Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.” LongPlayDealsWrittenNeeded Author:Blair Underwood
“My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!” YearsChildrenPlayGeniusNeededYears AgoNotesMusicalThirtySymphonyThirty YearsTrianglesApexNeeded SomeoneMusical Genius Author:May Sarton
“Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.” DifferentPlayPiecesNeededInterpretationDifferent Interpretations Author:Tobsha Learner
“[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.” WayNeedsHas BeensPlayNightActorsAudienceFrontsNeededInvolvedEssentialsSittingTheaterOpeningTonightDeniedEquipmentHandicappedOpening Night Author:Hallie Flanagan
“I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing properly, I was too Western. It took me a while to learn to think in needed form, and the only way I could learn was just by ear.” ThinkingWayPlayFormNeededEarsDifficultyWesternRhythm Author:Richard Meale
“I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.” ThinkingFirstsWellsKindImportantPlaySpeakIssuesNeededLondonExecutivesSignalsConferencesGrapplingGreenpeace Author:Bill Ford
“I had to work hard and hit the books because the opportunity to play in the NFL is not really that big, so I knew I needed something to fall back on. That’s the message I want to send to those kids when I talk to them in person and let them know the most important thing is getting your education.” KnowsWantPersonsImportantBookHardPlayBigsKidsFallOpportunityHard WorkNeededMessagesImportant ThingsNflFall Back Author:Jerry Rice
“I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some Monty Python.” IfsKnowsTryingMeanPlayHomeCareEnergyWatchesNeededConsciousGuitarTake CareAll TimeI've LearnedComing HomePythonMonty Author:Brent Sexton
“I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.” IfsEnoughPlayHomeWantedMomNeeded Author:Bo Jackson
“It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.” MindMadePlayGuyStepsGroupsFootballNeededGoing OutStep UpGreat Football Author:Kurt Warner
“I think I lead by example. I don't talk much. I talk when it's needed, but I just go out there and play hard every day and do it the right way.” ThinkingWayHardPlayExampleNeededRight WayPlay Hard Author:Jrue Holiday
“I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.” MenWantPlayGamesGoalTalkingPlayerTeamHe ManNeededBallsBoredNecksScorePaceKillersSelflessFavouriteFootballer Author:Rio Ferdinand
“I used to think I was like the wicket- keeper, which is like the catcher in base- ball, y'know what I mean? You can call the play a lot from behind the plate, y'know what I mean? You're not necessarily the star, you're not the one that makes the mark, but usually in the end, you're called upon to get a run when it's needed.” ThinkingKnowsMeanEndsPlayRunningUsedStarsBehindsNeededBallsMarkPlatesKeepersCatchers Author:Eric Idle
“I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.” LooksPlayCharacterWould BeFilmStuffDifficultInterestInterestingBoysAudienceTeacherNeededGuiltInstanceFormerDramaticTensionMain Characters Author:Philippe Falardeau
“Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.” KnowsWayWantPlayMightSpiritToo MuchNeededThinkerSpoilDaveHollandDeep Thinker Author:Miles Davis
“If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.” IfsKnowsWantI CanSometimesPlayKidsNeededGolfOur FamilyMotorcycle Author:Bob Seger
“The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously.” WritingPlayFeltSimpleNeededAlbumsDialogueSoundtracksComplement Author:Sarah Blasko
“Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.” IfsThinkingNeedsWritingTwoPlayFilmThreeAsksHouseHappenedStrangeNeededDirectorsCastsThirtyThemeFiftyFortyMelodyOne TimeTwinsPrincipalDuos Author:Michel Legrand
“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.” PeopleKnowsMeanTwoPlayShowsSongStarsMemoriesFocusRocksTvsNeededPureElementsMusicianGuitarRoundsRhythmJust OneTv ShowsRock StarEntertainersEarly Work Author:Pete Townshend
“Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.” DifferentPlayHandsSchoolGirlFoundFatherLanguageDecisionClassRichTakenNeededMovedMoved OnShakespeare's Plays Author:Felicity Kendal
“I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.” PeopleWayWantYearsHas BeensTwoPlayHelpingPastTeamFootballNeededTrainMedicalTwo Years Author:Cristiano Ronaldo
“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.” WantYearsMadeTwoPlayTogetherLastsSongSoundDifferencesHalfMillionsKnowingEnvironmentMaterialsHugeNeededSummerMusicianAlbumsStudiosTwo YearsControlledSatisfyingFieryFurnacesNew SongsLast Summer Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.” NeedsPlaySchoolNeededDramaTrainingBreathsYeahExpensive Author:Meryl Streep
“I am also amazed with Messi, what he is doing is very good. He contributes alot of very good things for the team. He is an individualist, but he always plays for the team.He covers well at the back, is organized and finishes well with both feet. He is mischievous, and is a very intelligent player. He applies pressure just where the pressure is needed.” WellsPlayPlayerTeamFeetNeededPressureIntelligentGood ThingsVery GoodOrganizedAmazedMessiMischievous Author:Alfredo Di Stefano
“When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.” IfsThinkingFirstsTwoIdeasPlayFormNeededRapBarsThirtyVersesRhymeSixteen Author:Kate Tempest
“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.” MenYearsMadeTwoDonePlayHomeCareKidsPurposeRolesHe ManRevolutionEvolutionNeededHundredYears AgoBusyProductionsConnectedUnitsFarmingIndustrial Revolution Author:Peter Buffett
“The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play.” PlayEasyNeededInstrumentsHeavyHardestBassPhysicality Author:Suzi Quatro
“I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.” ThinkingWayNeedsPlayNightSawsFrontsNeededInstrumentsMusicalEvery NightBassMicrophonesPercussionAmplification Author:Buddy Rich
“I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.” WantPlayFoundPlayerNeededGuitarBassBass PlayersBass GuitarPlaying BassBassists Author:Tina Weymouth
“We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.” IfsKnowsPlayPastGamesWinningSportsTeamNeededSeasonsDefenseCupsGet BetterStanleyWinning TeamStanley CupGame Over Author:Steve Yzerman