Deep Quote by Ian Gillan

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked…

— Mike Stoller

My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance…

— Ian Gillan

I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel…

— Robert Sapolsky

“I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my…

— Pete Townshend

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try…

— Linda Ronstadt

“Music was my therapy, and after a few songs, I always felt stronger. It was crazy how jazz fixed the broken pieces of me…

— Brittainy C. Cherry

When I was 8 years old, there was a showcase of all the instruments you can learn at my school. This guy was playing…

— Dennis Lloyd

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal,…

— Roy Wood

“The Negro on saxophone blew out a language older than English and the glasses on the tables trembled”

— Melinda Haynes

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes.…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was…

— Laura Mvula

“I started going to jazz clubs in New York when I was twelve or thirteen, first with my older cousins Mike and Jack, and…

— Donald Fagen