Quotes About Music

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

I'm very fond of piano players.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

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.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

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.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

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 played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

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.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

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

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

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