Piano Quotes - Page 26

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.