Book Quote by Benjamin Clementine

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

— Johnny Flynn

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for…

— Patti Smith

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way…

— Jerry Hunt

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I…

— Tom Glazer

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that…

— Leslie Bricusse

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

— Reggie Watts

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch…

— Mat Kearney

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

— Ella Henderson

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura