It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I hear melodies in my head, Find little notes in my bed, Ive got songs tangled up in my hair, I see… — Kiara Copy Share Image
I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out… — Alicia Witt Copy Share Image
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
“Richard had sold Gillian's piano. He'd offered to ship it out to California, but neither Jess nor Emily played. Emily had quit… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I rented a small box room in a house in Brockley. It was so small you couldn't fit a single bed in… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
We have home movies of Chris playing the piano with Will on his lap. One of the things that made my life… — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
When we get together in the studio, music just comes out. I'll pick up the guitar, my cousin will come in and… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that… — Kygo Copy Share Image
I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a… — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely… — Simon Helberg 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
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
“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
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
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 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 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
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
“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
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
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
...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