My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In sixth or seventh grade, my teacher assigned me to write and sing a song. I remember sitting at the piano in… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is… — John Haley Sims Copy Share Image
I was like 4 years old when I started playing piano, and I was like 10 years old when I saw a… — Hardwell 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point?… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments -… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I… — Eric Lewis 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
