Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.
To master the piano is to master the universe.
Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.
There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.
In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them
I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.
I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.
I'm very fond of piano players.
In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.
I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.
I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.
To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.
I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.
