I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a…

It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier…

— Timothy B. Schmit

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

— Stephen King

My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John Keats.

— James Veitch

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.

— Paul Gilbert

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or…

— Jackson Guthy

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved…

— Caio Fonseca

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number…

— Roselyn Sanchez

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing…

— Agnes Obel

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely…

— Kate Bush

I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and…

— Andrea Bocelli

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

— Oscar Wilde

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

— Flea

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my…

— Stephen Hough

I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands…

— Tim Minchin

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

— John Tesh