It is not easy to sing the way Karajan wants... because Karajan wants always piano, even pianissimo, but with tension. Legato with… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the… — Miles Franklin 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 learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing… — William Singe Copy Share Image
I couldn't sleep one night, and I didn't know what to do, so I came downstairs and started playing the piano. That's… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it.… — Elias Copy Share Image
You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In… — Rostam Batmanglij 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
[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
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and -… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Any time I think about sitting at a piano with Barry Manilow, I could start weeping. And then my other idea is… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the violin repertoire is that it's small enough that you can plan on learning everything at some point… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
“the deep rich notes of the cello pick up on a solo and quickly catch my attention. Each note tugs at my… — Samantha Armstrong Copy Share Image
Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
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