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  • I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

    School   Careers   Piano  
    Source: www.thefreethinktank.com
  • I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

    "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.
  • I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

    Piano   Homework   Hated  
  • Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

  • I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.

    Guitar   Play   Two  
  • I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

    Writing   Piano  
    Contemporary Musicians Vol. 14, May 1995.
  • Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

    Music   Men   Piano  
    Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation
  • My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

    Weekend   Night   Play  
  • I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

    Piano   Guitar   Karaoke  
    Source: www.themonitor.com
  • I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

    Play   Two   Piano  
  • There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say "Yes" to new collaborations because you never know where it could lead.

    Song   Writing   Guitar  
    Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.
  • When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

    Kids   Guitar   Piano  
    "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.
  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

    School   Piano   Littles  
  • My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

    Play   Piano   Height  
    James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.111, Courier Corporation
  • Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

    Music   Hurt   Piano  
  • I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

    Piano   House   Used  
    Source: collider.com
  • I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

    Exercise   Hands   Play  
  • I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons

    Teacher   Piano   Age  
  • I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

    Practice   Piano   Want  
  • Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

  • Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.

    Play   Piano   Pieces  
    David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
  • I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

    Guitar   Piano   Car  
  • If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

  • I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

    Writing   Artist   Guitar  
  • When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

    Hurt   Piano   Tennis  
  • A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

    Piano   People   Sound  
  • The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

    Music   Names   Piano  
    Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
  • To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'.

    Giving Up   Light   Play  
    Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.
  • The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

    Piano   Orchestra   Knows  
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