Quotes About Music

Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

I want to act in a film like 'The Pianist.'

I loved music and felt I had enough talent to become a concert pianist, but I was foolish enough to let myself be laughed out ot the idea.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.