Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes… — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a… — Joey Harrington Copy Share Image
I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The hierarchy is set out for me. The first priority is piano. I have to be 101 percent prepared. I find that… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
My body is an object of work. That's why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs.… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things,… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party,… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
Life is like a piano. Anyone can play a song through meaningless repetition, But it takes passion to play a masterpiece. Life… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one… — Arthur Godfrey Copy Share Image
I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then… — Avicii Copy Share Image
I used to work in a lumberyard and that's where I first heard a number on a jukebox and I liked it.… — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano,… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played… — Andy Peebles Copy Share Image
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
![“Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.” quote by Lenny Breau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/827/lenny-breau-65597_bills_bob-erlendson-a-local-piano-player-taugh_772016.jpg)
