Quotes About Creativity

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

We've always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we're the only people who play more than one note. I'm not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey's playing.

Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

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

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

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

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 play piano every day. I enjoy that.