J. C. Watts Playing Quotations

what I do and enjoy best, playing mainstream jazz.

He (Gould) didn't like being looked at that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't enjoy the public spectacle, and he acted on his feelings. Even though I may get nervous, I like performing in public. I like playing concerts.

Unlike football or basketball, we aren't allowed access to the playing service during breaks in play.

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The thought of seeing multi-millionaire hockey players skating around outside playing for real points has captured something,

They surprised us a little bit. We didn't adjust anything, we just got our heads back in the game and got back to playing the type of soccer we play.

It's close to home and I get a chance to keep playing soccer. I wasn't ready to give it up.

In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.