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There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.
Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.
Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.
Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!
There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.
At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?
I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.
The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.
I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.