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I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".
I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.
I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.
The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.
My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.
I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.
When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician