I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music,… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take… — Colin Munroe Copy Share Image
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around… — Jackson Guthy Copy Share Image
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window.… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my… — Enya Copy Share Image
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I told my father that I was not interested in studies. I was more interested in tabla, piano and other instruments. My… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I… — David Lambert Copy Share Image
I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to… — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
'Andhadhun' is the most challenging film and character. For playing the role, first and foremost I had to learn how to play… — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
It was always the singer that was the front man, but Mike stood there and played piano and keyboards. He had a… — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing.… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
