Quotes About Creativity

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

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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

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.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

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.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

I play piano every day.

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

I play the piano and write music.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

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