Joey Ramone Quotes

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Life must be lived as play.

I just love getting dirty.

I believe in the power of play.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

Playing is the biggest thing there is.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

I think I would rather want to create something new, but I really did enjoy doing that show. It was a really fun show to do.

The true object of human life is play.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Serious art is born from serious play.