Quotes About Inspiration

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.

Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.