Quotes About Talent

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.

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 play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

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

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

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 don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

I play the piano and write music.

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

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 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.