Spontaneous Play Quotes

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

I seem to play in spurts. Somebody will tell me about a cool game, then I'll run out and play for a bit, but then I'm done.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

If we're going to change the game it has to start at eight, nine and 10 years old. When we were that age we'd go to the pond or backyard rink and throw a puck on the ice and play five on five, or seven on seven. You get this creativity and this imagination that comes from within, just having fun on the pond. Now kids are so focused on team play, and the coaches are so focused on positioning. You can't change it at the NHL level.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

I was a flamboyant player when I started playing First Class cricket. I used to just back my instincts and go with the flow.

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!