Quotes About Inspiration

I wanted to play the piano.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.

My muse has always been the piano.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

I like all music... My parents both just loved music from all genres. I don't have a favorite; I just love music. That's why I want to play the piano.

I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

I'd like to be a piano player.

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.