Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
quote by Wynton Marsalis
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
quote by Jackson Browne
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Stiff Competition
Stiff competition
If i go up-you take me higher
Stiff competition
And when i'm down- you take me higher
There's stiff competition all over the world
I screw you-you screw me-they screw us
Here we go again
Oh- but we have so much fun, so much fun
When we're together
When we're together
When we're together-now
I looked hard in your eyes
It was love at first sight
It took me minutes-you're still waiting
Waiting for your turn, you turn
It won't be long
Stiff competition
I work hard-every day of my life
Stiff competition
Get it up-you take me higher
Stiff competition
All over the world
The more i get- the more i like it
The bigger they are- the harder they fall
Again
Stiff competition
Stiff competition
Stiff competition
Stiff competition
song performed by by Cheap Trick
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The Music Comes And Goes
by: Tripp
the soothing sounds of a piano to a guitar the sounds they make
the feeling It brings when the piano sings playing the strings of a guitar
the times come and goes as the music grows
in the heart of those who play
thinking of that one thing that brings epiphany to that instrument you play
as you hold and take care playing with hopes and dreams the music slips through
and sings
i can't get enough of what it does to me
when i hear that sound that voice
the music she brings to my heart when I'm with her
her voice is the epiphany to my heart
holding on to her the music keeps playing
my heart keeps beating as the music plays
i keep dreaming dreaming holding on hoping this song will never end
dreaming to fall in love with this instrument forever
she is my instrument
poem by Preston Trip
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
quote by Jerry Lawler
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
quote by Major Owens
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
quote by Billie Joe Armstrong
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
quote by Ornette Coleman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
quote by Kristin Hersh
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
quote by Nastassja Kinski
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
quote by Josh Silver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
quote by Samuel Butler
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
quote by Dan Quayle
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
quote by Samuel Butler
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Playing With Uranium
In for an evening, of lite entertainment
and who would believe you, could worry the neighbor
Come on over to my place, playing with uranium
If it blows up in your face, see you on the other side
Come on over to my place, playing with uranium
Reinvent the human race, you just got the invitation
We go undiscovered, cause people are careless
One way or another, they'll never forget us
Come on over to my place, playing with uranium
If it blows up in your face, see you on the other side
Come on over to my place, playing with uranium
Reinvent the human race, you just got the invitation
Playing with uranium, playing with uranium
Never be the same again
Cause they're playing with uranium,
Playing with uranium, playing with uranium
song performed by by Duran Duran
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
quote by Jon Bon Jovi
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Historically You Know This
Tactics used,
To maneuver your way into portraying yourself...
As a better qualified human being than me,
Through the devisive use of corruption, deceit...
And the calculated infusion of mental abuse,
Has resulted in your exhaustion.
You seem to have run out of fresh manipulations.
I hope not.
You provide me with mental candy.
On the same leveled game playing field,
And blindfolded...
You provide no competition.
And historically you know this.
No one is that sound asleep!
That's why your apparent deadend,
Has you rushing to find 'something' of validity...
To divert attention,
Away from insecurities you wish would leave...
To continue doing the mocking done you do of me.
To further falsify your abilities.
You seem to have run out of fresh manipulations.
I hope not.
I have never met an obstacle,
I did not find intriguing.
On the same leveled game playing field,
And blindfolded...
You provide no competition.
And historically you know this.
No one is that sound asleep!
No one could be 'that' naïve...
About a fact based reality faced and believed.
But then again...
Tactics used,
Are not always on the surface...
To be observed!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
quote by Walter Cronkite
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.
quote by Katie Couric
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
quote by Niki Lauda
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!