Quotes About Inspiration

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano.

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.

I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.

Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.

I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

For me, the keyboard is always an additional sound to the piano. Piano is the main instrument; I can't go anywhere without acoustic piano. It's been my best friend since I was 6 years old.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

I started off as a kid singing with my dad. My dad was my best pal. But he had seven kids, and I was the only one who was kind of interested in what he was playing and singing at the piano. And he was not only my dad, but he was my best pal, and I was interested in doing whatever he wanted to.

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

A couple of my friends had guitars, and I remember messing with them, but I was often intimidated by it. I think I sat down at a piano once when I was really young, but that was it.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.