Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've… — Jerry Hunt Copy Share Image
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band.… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back… — Yoko Shimomura Copy Share Image
'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I… — Thomas A. Dorsey Copy Share Image
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
A lot of my approach to the instrument, especially as I've gotten older, is to treat the piano in ways that are… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I just wanted to release an album of piano music for music's sake. I'm not expecting to sell millions of albums. It's… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
“Without missing a beat I continue to play our black Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano and say, “Not now! Mommy and Daddy are… — Carole King Copy Share Image
Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time,… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
As a little kid, I'd put on shows for my family. I would sing songs and play piano. I thought while growing… — Amber Stevens Copy Share Image
Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I remember writing really simple songs on the piano when I was really young. Looking back, I'd play a lot of two-note… — Alex G Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I… — Mabel Copy Share Image
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry.… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
