Piano Quote by Gil Scott-Heron Download Open image “I was a piano player before I was a poet.” — Gil Scott-Heron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Piano Piano Player Player Poet Poetry
And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band. — Caroline Corr Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital. — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry when I was 12 years old and also undertook vocal training since a young age. However, it was only during… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music. — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. — Lucas Grabeel Copy Share Image
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic noise, and… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to learn the piano, but because I travel so much, I can never get any consistency of lessons. So everywhere… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image