People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire;… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing… — Birdy Copy Share Image
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the… — Ellen Hollman Copy Share Image
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang… — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“~Dance~ My fingers dance On the set Of ivory & black pirouettes. I let go While my fingers fly, Making music through… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a… — C418 Copy Share Image
“Piano At 66 Sandringham Crescent an upright piano was being eased down a long flight of stairs by three men all wearing… — Dannie Abse Copy Share Image
When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I sound like a crazy person... but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen… — Kerli Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project,… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano.… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our… — Laura Allen Copy Share Image
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that… — John Legend Copy Share Image
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I play the piano when I'm alone at home in the evening. Sometimes for friends when we are together, singing together, to… — Ralph Hasenhuttl Copy Share Image
