As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house.… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done -… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy… — Nino Rota Copy Share Image
“(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)”… — Margaret Harriman Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training… — Jade Hassoune Copy Share Image
With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era,… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
In my spare time, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff.… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy… — Lights Copy Share Image
See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
My grandma had a piano at home so I was playing as a kid sometimes. For three years I just wanted to… — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
“That lady has a piano. It’s nice, but it’s not the running of rivers Or the murmuring trees make .. Who needs… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
“The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long… — Thad Carhart Copy Share Image
My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my… — Lapsley Copy Share Image
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?” he asked. He held me so his head was a few… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman -… — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing… — Daya Copy Share Image
I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play… — Frankie Laine Copy Share Image
I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid -… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
