Quotes About Artistry

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 play the saxophone, and I used to play 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!

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 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.

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

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 read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

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

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

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

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.