The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing… — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer… — Yoshiki Copy Share Image
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly...… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
“He took the fucking piano, Sunshine. He didn't take everything. Look at your left hand. It's probably clenched in a fist right… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
I was kind of, I would say, even obsessed with music. I wanted to start learning piano when I was six years… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director,… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I've always felt I struck out with Doris Day. Her son, Terry Melcher, was a producer I worked for at Columbia, and… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it… — Andrew Hollander Copy Share Image
“Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the violin repertoire is that it's small enough that you can plan on learning everything at some point… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit… — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no… — Evgeny Kissin Copy Share Image
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
“What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?” “A piano.” “Simon.” “A really huge metronome that could also double… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try… — Lamont Dozier Copy Share Image
There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why… — Josh Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind. — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“- É aquele estupido marido que tenho. - disse para o velho cão. - Em vez de me dar uma trancada,bate no… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
At the piano, scales, arpeggios And chords, the morning exercises, The afternoon's reading, the night's reflection, That's how to produce a virtuoso. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny… — John Fullbright Copy Share Image
