When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our… — Laura Allen Copy Share Image
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that… — John Legend Copy Share Image
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I play the piano when I'm alone at home in the evening. Sometimes for friends when we are together, singing together, to… — Ralph Hasenhuttl Copy Share Image
“Each piano is unique. Each feels different beneath your hand and yields a new geography of sound. Each room or hall accepts… — A. Manette Ansay Copy Share Image
[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or… — Beth Nielsen Chapman Copy Share Image
When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs.… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the… — Ellen Hollman Copy Share Image
My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing… — Birdy Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang… — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
I sound like a crazy person... but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my… — Yanni Copy Share Image
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I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen… — Kerli Copy Share Image
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a… — David Lanz Copy Share Image
I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my… — Terence Lewis Copy Share Image
I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored.… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
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