Quotes: Play

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

I didn’t want to play a rancher. I didn’t want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn’t.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

It’s hard to find a play that’s right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Once I grew from 6’1″ to about 6’6″, by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that’s when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I’m being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.