He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
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Related I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on masterin... LUCAS GRABEEL Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I of... MARKUS ZUSAK A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. TOM WAITS A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. UNKNOWN I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; ... BRENDON URIE Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. ... BUDDY GUY While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy wo... FRANK MORGAN I'm not a strong safety or free safety, but if I did play that position, that is the way I would wan... JAKE PLUMMER My goal when I started was to play arenas with just my accordion. CORN MO My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. 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I just want to continue to do it. You... MORRIS PETERSON I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of h... LILLIAN GISH He seems really tough. A couple of times, I teed off on him, but he got right back up and made a big... CHAD GREENWAY He got me started in the game and I know he wanted me to play. There's more pressure on me this week... WOODY AUSTIN I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. ... WILLIAM PETERSEN But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't pl... CHARLIE HUNTER I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?&... SIRENA HUANG It stinks. I didn't play (here) last year after having an opportunity, and this year I'm just not ab... JAMES DRISCOLL I can tell him that if he messes up on a play, he can't hold it; he can't think about it. Being a DB... 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But really, deep down, I wo... RAY PARK I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is goin... LLEYTON HEWITT Just watching film and the couple of games I've seen him this year, he's a fun player. He flies arou... JAKE PLUMMER I want to play as soon as possible, ... You want to play but I don't pick and choose. It's not my jo... SIDNEY CROSBY Before training camp, I had a couple of conversations on the phone and he threw some questions at me... STEVE YZERMAN He really wanted to play last year, but he didn't, ... I think he finally came out because people we... JAMES GLENN We figured, big Bob, he's 275 pounds. I think about half the plays, he just pushed the center into t... JASON TROUSDALE I didn't know if it was going to come to me or not, but I was ready. The DB was looking back at the ... GREG CARR He can do other stuff that he hasn't been doing, ... He can play tight end. We haven't gotten into s... BOBBY JOHNSON Craig is a natural goalscorer and very rarely misses in and around the box. He is entitled to be kno... JOHN HARTSON You want to play in every Test and you want to start in every Test. That's probably the first thing.... MATT GITEAU I play about three times a week for a couple of hours at a time. BEN QUIRE I can't remember a freshman I've coached that has stepped on the field as a freshman and played how ... CHARLIE WILLIAMS Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it decons... CHICK COREA You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th... AUGUST WILSON He wanted to play football. I didn't agree with it. I didn't think he should do it. But he was deter... FRANK GODINA My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'... GARY CLARK, JR. If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and al... JACKSON BROWNE My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it... GAVIN DEGRAW I don't worry about things as far as statistics are concerned. I just want to prepare the best I can... DAN MARINO He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for ... BOUNA NDIAYE I think Martin is finished here at Arsenal as a player, but if he wants to go on and play somewhere ... ARSENE WENGER He told me that I don't respect him and he's going to let me go so I can play for a team and a coach... DEMETRIS BENDROSS We went in and came out without a victory. We wanted to focus on doing all the little things we didn... COURTNEY LEE I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I ... CLAUDIO REYNA During fall camp, Fran came to me and told me he wanted me to play fullback, ... I said, 'Sure, Fran... LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Our head coach resigned last week. ... I talked with Damon at length a couple times and he decided h... JEFF CALLAHAN The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me ... ELLIS HOBBS I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right pia... BENMONT TENCH They had the shoes on their feet and the clothes on their backs. He's ready to get his life back goi... CECIL FLOWE Whatever coach Coker wanted me to do, I was willing to do, ... If he wanted me to sit the rest of th... ANDREW JOHNSON He just loved being on the bandstand. He'd kick the piano bench over and drop to his knees and play ... BRUCE IGLAUER And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was nervous. Not nervous for any other reason just that I thought we deserved to win. I felt like ... DAVID PAYNE You’d have a list of notes of things that the player did and they’d want you to do it that way i... MICHAEL HOLLEY He said to me 'How come I haven't seen you in the classrooms or the hallways at the Junior High? I t... BILL SEABURY I think he can be a great 4-3 end. If he puts a hand on the ground, he will bring the heat. And he'l... LARRY JOHNSON But I was well enough to play about 75 percent last week, so I told Coach (Art Briles) that I wanted... ANTHONY EVANS I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I... ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV The last thing on my mind [during that play] was how my knee was doing. There have been a couple of ... BRENDAN CALLAHAN Coaches gave me an opportunity to play, and I just hope I showed I can play. MATT BUTLER I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsm... HARBHAJAN SINGH Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. TRENT REZNOR I'm satisfied with my form this week, but I'm not happy yet. 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To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Liv... MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
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And drink of Adam's ale. MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless... MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence. MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
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In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder pas... MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast. MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se... MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree. MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face... MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi... MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part. MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful ... MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human. MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means. MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Brave... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a l... MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die. MATTHEW ARNOLD God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
... MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time. MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live. MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture... MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome. MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden an... MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly. MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
Th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world." MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev... MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light. MATTHEW ARNOLD