Quotes About Music

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it's a hobby I enjoy.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.