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  • I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

    Music   Three   Way  
    Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.322, Simon and Schuster
  • The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.

    Dog   Morning   War  
    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.

    Taken   Thinking   Play  
    "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.
  • There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

    Football   War   Ballet  
    Source: www.vibe.com
  • Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  • You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

    Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.
  • My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

  • From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.

    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

    Men   People   Wow  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.

    Mother   Believe   School  
  • I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

  • The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

    Source: deadline.com
  • This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

    Country   War   Iraq  
  • God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.

  • The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

    Football   Impact   Nfl  
  • If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

    Sports   Real   Hard Work  
  • Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didn’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.

  • The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.

  • I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

    ChicagoPride.com Interview, chicago.gopride.com. August 26, 2009.
  • To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

    Mind   Enemy   Records  
    George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

    Party   Government   Two  
  • I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.

    "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.
  • I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.

    "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.
  • But between the images, we are privy to the real-life action being played out on the set. Peeta's attempt to continue speaking. The camera knocked down to record the white tiled floor. The scuffle of boots. The impact of the blow that's inseparable from Peeta's cry of pain. And his blood as it splatters the tiles.

    Pain   Real   Blow  
    Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1159, Scholastic Inc.
  • What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

    Children   Dozen   May  
  • In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

    Japan   Ideas   Helping  
  • Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

    Confused   Book   Games  
  • At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.

    World   Emotion   Anthem  
  • Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

    Song   Play   People  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • [With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

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