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
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
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
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
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
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
I have never stopped performing live.I've been blessed with the talent to sing and play the piano so I can fit into… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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 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
