I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I…

“A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that…

— Adi Alsaid

“I learned your language and I learned your rules. I am more like you than me now.”

— Chris Cleave

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

— Marsha Norman

Oscar Peterson's 'Hymn to Freedom' is the first song I ever lifted on the piano. I learned it note-for-note and it's still probably the…

— JP Saxe

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

— Maximilian Schell

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I…

— Matt Skiba

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I…

— Jack Black

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such…

— Bill Bailey

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it…

— A'Lelia Bundles

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things…

— Andrei Codrescu

I had the opportunity to travel to America when I was younger and learned the language.

— Rodri

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned…

— Larry Wall

Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a…

— Ivan Illich

When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words…

— William J. Clinton