Jim Carroll Quotes

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

Plays have to be made, and we have to find a way to make them. All of us.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.