I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry.… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and… — Elton John Copy Share Image
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I still only play by ear. I don't have any training. But the piano actually makes more sense to me than guitar,… — Amber Rubarth Copy Share Image
Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is… — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image
Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
If I go to the piano and write a quick song and play it back, they are angry with how fast and… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
My songs used to be significantly more bizarre. I used to play a big electric piano and a loop pedal. I was… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
On playing guitar: I can play piano by ear, and some guitar. But I definitely havent mastered either instrument. I do it… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's very interesting, those things that are very important to you, when they first appear in front of you, you resist… — Yixing Zhang Copy Share Image
I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
The thing is, I'm not really a great pianist at all. But if God said I could either sing or play piano,… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels… — Daya Copy Share Image
In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on… — Harry Anderson Copy Share Image
I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
