Quotes About Creativity

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 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.

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.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a 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 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.

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.

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.

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 played piano, I learned a lot about music.

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.