Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me...… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C,… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
I play piano, so when I'm learning a new or difficult piece, at some point I have to enjoy the music of… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then… — Son Lux Copy Share Image
Life's like a piano. The pleasures are the white keys and the sorrows are the black keys. In the end, they work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and… — Dannii Minogue Copy Share Image
I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
“I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so… — Julie Halpern Copy Share Image
I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
Because I play so many instruments I approach each song differently. One might be from a drum perspective, one from a producing… — G Flip Copy Share Image
...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and… — Clint Hill Copy Share Image
I had, like, a keytar. I was always attracted to the guitar, but I never really thought that I could be good… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
I used to go to Caerphilly with my brother Les, two years older than me, with my mother to see her sister,… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I've been making electronic music since I was 12. I was making music as soon as I knew how to make sounds… — Travis Stewart Copy Share Image
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more.… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
“I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they… — Agnes Obel 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
