Quotes About Artistry

I play the piano and write music.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I played piano, flute, and guitar.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.

I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I'd like to be a piano player.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.