It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.


Birdy

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a rea...
GUY FIERI
I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because i...
MADDIE ZIEGLER
I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL
I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my la...
JAMES BLUNT
About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI
I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher...
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience...
TOMMY LEE
My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we ca...
BAILEE MADISON
I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN
My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends a...
TIFFANY TRUMP
To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me...
KIP MOORE
Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN
I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smarte...
JIMMY FALLON
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music...
JENNIFER HUDSON
My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's m...
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ
Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON
My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and ...
BRODY JENNER
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It&#...
AYUMI HAMASAKI
I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea...
NAT WOLFF
She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kin...
BILLIE LOURD
Claude Debussy's 'Children's Corner' is a suite with six movements just for piano. A...
JON BATISTE
There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she...
SOPHIA AMORUSO
When you think Selena Gomez, you think 'celebrity.' But really, she does so many things for ...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN
To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really...
FLUME
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch hi...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID
I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a rea...
NATHAN FILLION
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if yo...
PARK CHAN-WOOK
For me, the word 'housewife,' because of, like, the 'Real Housewives' - I don't ...
SARAH DUNN
It's harder to be angry at home when we lose. When it was just me and the missus, she didn't...
HARRY KANE
Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me...
JACK ANTONOFF
I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the 'Guardian' hating me. I like it when...
JEREMY CLARKSON
I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, t...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up t...
TAYLOR SWIFT
I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to...
RODNEY KING
It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this be...
IGGY AZALEA
It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The ...
BEN STEIN
I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the c...
LARISA OLEYNIK
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don'...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really import...
MICKALENE THOMAS
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you...
AARON TVEIT
My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protect...
GIGI HADID
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she&...
PATTI SMITH
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD
Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, th...
JOKO BECK
There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a t...
LOUIS C. K.
My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email ...
RAIN PHOENIX
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ...
M. WARD
Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessar...
ELLIOTT YAMIN
I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Ha...
TODD PHILLIPS
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that&#...
KACY HILL
She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everythin...
ASHLEY OLSEN
It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ...
SUNG KANG
I'll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bus...
MARK MCKINNON
I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1...
CHARICE PEMPENGCO
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and...
KEVIN DURANT
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't...
CALLIE KHOURI
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it ...
GEORGE VECSEY
It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's...
JODIE FOSTER
It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th...
ASHLEY TISDALE
I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go throu...
BECKY G
I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me,...
TIFFANY TRUMP
I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so...
CHARLIE ROWE
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
CAM GIGANDET
Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because ...
LYDIA KO
My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song...
ACTION BRONSON
My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.
PAUL WALKER
God as 'He,' as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America,...
PATTY GRIFFIN
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring....
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD
I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's wha...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD
To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funn...
CATHERINE O'HARA
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me...
NEIL YOUNG
I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's gettin...
KATHY VALENTINE
Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive ...
BETTY WRIGHT
I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I firs...
JASON WU
It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get...
TED ALLEN

More Birdy