I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
Classical music was very much a part of my life growing up, and it was always playing in the house. And music… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough… — John Williams Copy Share Image
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A couple of my friends had guitars, and I remember messing with them, but I was often intimidated by it. I think… — Tycho Copy Share Image
The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started… — Blake Michael Copy Share Image
Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music… — Zedd Copy Share Image
Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours,… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point?… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I… — Eric Lewis Copy Share Image
I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on… — Roselyn Sanchez Copy Share Image
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments -… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would… — Holly Marie Combs Copy Share Image
For me, the keyboard is always an additional sound to the piano. Piano is the main instrument; I can't go anywhere without… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
