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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.


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KENNY G I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
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LARRY HARRIS In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done th...
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ERIC ANDRE Somebody will let him play. Hopefully it will be the Indians.
DON MITCHELL I don't think she should be here. I think she should play in the women's tournaments because they do...
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KAT DENNINGS When you play Westwood, the game is defense. They don't let you score much so we had to pick it up.
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CHARLIE COLES They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.
STEPHENIE MEYER I'm expecting to play, ... I'm preparing to play, but I'll let the coaches make that decision.
CAM CLEELAND It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got ...
COUNT BASIE He said, 'Coach, get me out. I can't play, they won't let me play.
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CASEY FOSSUM I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a l...
DAVID EDWARDS Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
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HENRY ROLLINS I'm just appreciative they let us come down here and play. We needed to play.
BOB GRAY If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! ...
BETTY CARTER People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with th...
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JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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ANTONIO DAVIS Failure is not the final fall.
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FLEA We want to let our play be the judges.
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J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN They would call it a cabin. Or a cottage. Let me tell you, Charlie, it was a shack. There's no doubt...
KENNY SALWEY We need to stop letting things like that bother us. We let (a bad play) bother us too much in practi...
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And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER