Cellars Quote by Regina Spektor

I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere…

— Tim Minchin

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants,…

— Nick Gehlfuss

I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play…

— Rachael Yamagata

There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a fairly musical…

— David Essex

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 joined Elton John's band in '75. He not only allowed me to play the electronic keyboard on his albums, he also let me…

— James Newton Howard

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records…

— Dr. John

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by…

— Colin Hay

I am a musician by rights, and I played in Asbury Park in the old African Room in the Robert Trent Hotel next to…

— Frank Vincent

I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier... like... all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the…

— Antoni Porowski

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

— Alicia Witt