My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
Only after coming to Chennai did I come to know that I know nothing about music. People in Chennai are so talented… — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings,… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want Jeremy Clarkson anywhere near my shed or my toolbox or my piano. He's interested in fashionable restaurants and celebrity… — James May Copy Share Image
I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play,… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing,… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me,… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
For me, it's always been about a mix of hip-hop, acoustic singer/songwriters, and piano rock. I pull all those together. Each song… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of… — Max Schneider Copy Share Image
“It is like the making of music. It is as simple as that. All the notes on a piano, for example, already… — Story Waters Copy Share Image
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
My parents bought this baby grand piano, which was in my living room, that I owe a lot to. I would just… — Borns Copy Share Image
I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I've been scuffed up a little, but I just hope and pray that I keep my youthful looks for as long as… — Cyrus Chestnut Copy Share Image
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such,… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else.… — Vangelis 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
I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
