There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this,… — Amber Rubarth Copy Share Image
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons… — Tobe Hooper Copy Share Image
I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is… — Theodore E. Steinway 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
The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
“On the stage Tristen bent over the piano, his fingers swift and sure, his blond hair gleaming under the spotlight. I glanced… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“I know it doesn’t make noise,” he explained. “Going through the motions is comforting to me. I wish I had a real… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
My uncle was an Indian singer for a long time. He was pretty popular in India. He was one of the first… — Nav Copy Share Image
My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
My own sister has always been apparently more successful socially. I was much more the serious one. While she was out shopping… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back… — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Right now, I’m living like a piano is going to come plummeting from the sky any second, and I don’t know when.… — K.K. Hendin Copy Share Image
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it… — Robert Beverly Hale Copy Share Image
I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no… — Pinetop Perkins Copy Share Image
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
