It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I got into the art of producing without the samples now. That takes piano lessons and all that. — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. — Barbara Ann Scott 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 guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me,… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used… — Frank Sinatra Jr 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
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 dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I… — Frederic Chopin 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 began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.' — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins 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
As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right… — Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being… — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image