Quotes About Inspiration

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I play piano every day.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

I play the piano and write music.

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

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.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.