Pastoral Resources

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

We'll probably have to play the perfect game.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

We've got to play better basketball.

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.