College Quote by Sean Hayes

A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko - I…

— Roisin Murphy

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

— Cory Michael Smith

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

— Cyrus Chestnut

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

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

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson

I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles.…

— Jeph Loeb

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and…

— Trevor St. John

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

— Hozier

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over…

— Clinton Sparks

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I…

— Grace Potter