We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
On playing guitar: I can play piano by ear, and some guitar. But I definitely havent mastered either instrument. I do it… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's very interesting, those things that are very important to you, when they first appear in front of you, you resist… — Yixing Zhang Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I told my father that I was not interested in studies. I was more interested in tabla, piano and other instruments. My… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to… — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I… — David Lambert Copy Share Image
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
It was always the singer that was the front man, but Mike stood there and played piano and keyboards. He had a… — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
'Andhadhun' is the most challenging film and character. For playing the role, first and foremost I had to learn how to play… — Ayushmann Khurrana 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
The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing.… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar… — Cailee Spaeny Copy Share Image
I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that… — Eleanor Robson Belmont 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
Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at me, or I thought my… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal,… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of… — Alexis Dziena Copy Share Image
