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I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL![]()
I was a piano player before I was a poet.
GIL SCOTT-HERON And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the pia...
LAURA MARANO Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right pia...
BENMONT TENCH I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could ...
RICHIE HAVENS![]()
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
GARY OLDMAN![]()
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do,...
DAVID MAMET I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ fre...
FKA TWIGS I'm not a great piano player.
NORAH JONES I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
CARLENE CARTER I think I'm a very poor piano player.
RAY MANZAREK My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
KATE BUSH I'd like to be a piano player.
CHRIS DAUGHTRY I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playin...
NADIA ALI![]()
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an e...
JON BON JOVI![]()
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at...
VANESSA CARLTON As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
BOZ SCAGGS![]()
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school...
IRINA SHAYK![]()
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o...
TORI AMOS I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN![]()
If I was a singer, I'd never do a tribute to Ray, ... If I was a piano player, I'd never do a tribut...
JOHN SCOFIELD My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
BEBE NEUWIRTH The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN![]()
If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER![]()
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano inst...
RICKY MARTIN There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY I've always written [music]. I've always played the piano. And until recently-- with Metric being a ...
EMILY HAINES![]()
You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON![]()
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
KIANA TOM I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
D. J. MACHALE I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis...
MIKE SHINODA![]()
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel...
BURT BACHARACH![]()
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I...
MAURY YESTON I was immediately struck by his genuine personality, his intelligence, his sense of humor and his lo...
MARIA LETONA I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE![]()
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
SAM HUNT I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti...
VANESSA BROWN![]()
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
SANDRA BULLOCK I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as ...
IMOGEN HEAP Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me ...
DUSTIN LYNCH I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the pi...
ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang ...
RACHEL PLATTEN My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano a...
PARK BO-GUM When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.&...
JOHN TESH![]()
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.
DENNIS WILSON When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music ...
CHARLES PETZOLD What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
DANIEL ADAIR Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That...
JEFF LYNNE Piano players are all wacky, and drummers just like to make noise. The bass player has to be respons...
JOHN KOLIVAS![]()
I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote the...
J. D. SOUTHER I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON![]()
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my l...
IGOR STRAVINSKY![]()
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my l...
IGOR STRAVINSKY![]()
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
JANEL PARRISH I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking pian...
ERIC LEWIS He's a real good piano player and, when he makes beat, I like going to the room and listening.
ANDRE MCMILLAN A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.
CHRISETTE MICHELE 'The Old Rugged Cross.' 'I Saw the Light.' 'Amazing Grace.' I don't think the piano ever stopped pla...
BARBARY CHAAPEL Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church ...
LARRY MARTIN![]()
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in ...
IGOR STRAVINSKY I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
VALERIE JUNE![]()
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player i...
HARRY S TRUMAN![]()
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intell...
E.M. FORSTER I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
ABEL KORZENIOWSKI I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
CHARLIE HADEN![]()
I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw...
ROBERT PATTINSON Life is Like a Piano,, and Im Playing Beethoven...
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a composition...
CHICK COREA![]()
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the Pink Panther theme. That was my goal. Once I was...
JACK BLACK Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort ...
PAUL WESTERBERG I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
FEFE DOBSON I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don...
IAN AXEL A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.
RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
IAN AXEL![]()
I'm Liberace without a piano.
PAUL LYNDE![]()
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong tim...
ANI DIFRANCO I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I go...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more an...
RICHARD HYUNG-KI JOO![]()
I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.
CAROLYN KIZER [She uses her iPod] all the time — before games, on the bus, in airplanes, ... I just love music. ...
LAUREN JACKSON [She uses her iPod] all the time before games, on the bus, in airplanes, ... I just love music. I...
LAUREN JACKSON I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually s...
ZEDD My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
ATTICUS ROSS![]()
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
ADAM DRIVER I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The ...
RACHEL BOSTON![]()
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
JOAN DIDION People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ...
MITCHEL MUSSO The piano is a reasonably quiet instrument, and I suppose it's quite strange to have it with such lo...
BARRY BURNS![]()
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD![]()
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. ...
JACK BLACK I couldn't recognize my daughter's piano.
GRACE LEUNG
BLAKE MICHAEL
I was a piano player before I was a poet. GIL SCOTT-HERON And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the pia...
LAURA MARANO Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right pia...
BENMONT TENCH I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could ...
RICHIE HAVENS
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. GARY OLDMAN
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do,... DAVID MAMET I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ fre...
FKA TWIGS I'm not a great piano player.
NORAH JONES I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
CARLENE CARTER I think I'm a very poor piano player.
RAY MANZAREK My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
KATE BUSH I'd like to be a piano player.
CHRIS DAUGHTRY I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playin...
NADIA ALI
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an e... JON BON JOVI
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at... VANESSA CARLTON As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
BOZ SCAGGS
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school... IRINA SHAYK
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o... TORI AMOS I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN
If I was a singer, I'd never do a tribute to Ray, ... If I was a piano player, I'd never do a tribut... JOHN SCOFIELD My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
BEBE NEUWIRTH The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN
If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet. J.D. SALINGER
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano inst... RICKY MARTIN There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY I've always written [music]. I've always played the piano. And until recently-- with Metric being a ...
EMILY HAINES
You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th... AUGUST WILSON
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. KIANA TOM I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
D. J. MACHALE I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis...
MIKE SHINODA
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel... BURT BACHARACH
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I... MAURY YESTON I was immediately struck by his genuine personality, his intelligence, his sense of humor and his lo...
MARIA LETONA I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it. SAM HUNT I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti...
VANESSA BROWN
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. SANDRA BULLOCK I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as ...
IMOGEN HEAP Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me ...
DUSTIN LYNCH I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the pi...
ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang ...
RACHEL PLATTEN My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano a...
PARK BO-GUM When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.&...
JOHN TESH
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr... EDDIE VAN HALEN All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.
DENNIS WILSON When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music ...
CHARLES PETZOLD What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
DANIEL ADAIR Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That...
JEFF LYNNE Piano players are all wacky, and drummers just like to make noise. The bass player has to be respons...
JOHN KOLIVAS
I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote the... J. D. SOUTHER I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my l... IGOR STRAVINSKY
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my l... IGOR STRAVINSKY
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ... HARRY S TRUMAN Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
JANEL PARRISH I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking pian...
ERIC LEWIS He's a real good piano player and, when he makes beat, I like going to the room and listening.
ANDRE MCMILLAN A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.
CHRISETTE MICHELE 'The Old Rugged Cross.' 'I Saw the Light.' 'Amazing Grace.' I don't think the piano ever stopped pla...
BARBARY CHAAPEL Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church ...
LARRY MARTIN
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in ... IGOR STRAVINSKY I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
VALERIE JUNE
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player i... HARRY S TRUMAN
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intell... E.M. FORSTER I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
ABEL KORZENIOWSKI I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
CHARLIE HADEN
I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw... ROBERT PATTINSON Life is Like a Piano,, and Im Playing Beethoven...
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a composition...
CHICK COREA
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the Pink Panther theme. That was my goal. Once I was... JACK BLACK Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort ...
PAUL WESTERBERG I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
FEFE DOBSON I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don...
IAN AXEL A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.
RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
IAN AXEL
I'm Liberace without a piano. PAUL LYNDE
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong tim... ANI DIFRANCO I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I go...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more an...
RICHARD HYUNG-KI JOO
I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano. CAROLYN KIZER [She uses her iPod] all the time — before games, on the bus, in airplanes, ... I just love music. ...
LAUREN JACKSON [She uses her iPod] all the time before games, on the bus, in airplanes, ... I just love music. I...
LAUREN JACKSON I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually s...
ZEDD My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
ATTICUS ROSS
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. ADAM DRIVER I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The ...
RACHEL BOSTON
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. JOAN DIDION People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ...
MITCHEL MUSSO The piano is a reasonably quiet instrument, and I suppose it's quite strange to have it with such lo...
BARRY BURNS
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!... CHARLES HAZLEWOOD
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. ... JACK BLACK I couldn't recognize my daughter's piano.
GRACE LEUNG
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.... 
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. 
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&... 
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong... 
I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now. 
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. 
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l... 
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old sch... 
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin... 
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the... 
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audie... 
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... 
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. 
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and ... 
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. 
The friends I made have slipped and strayed. 
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. 
Politics is the science of urgencies. 
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. 
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. 