Quotes About Inspiration

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at what he did. Most people don't realize what a great pianist he was. After listening to him for years, I finally met him, and he was the nicest human being.

Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it's a hobby I enjoy.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.