Quotes About Music

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

I want to play piano. My girlfriend loves the piano.

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.