Bill Quote by Jimmy Smith

When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but he's playing…

— Jon Gordon

I found my childhood scrapbook and there's an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he's been playing the…

— Jason Bonham

The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep."…

— Booker T. Jones

I played piano for about 12 years.

— Hardwell

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day…

— Benny Green

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

— Colin Greenwood

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

— Clarence Clemons

I remember recording with Johnny Sandlin at his place right outside Muscle Shoals and he turned me on to a lot of those musicians…

— Derek Trucks

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

— Caroline Corr

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew…

— Charles McPherson

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to…

— Jake Epstein