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  • 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  
  • 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.

  • 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
  • There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.

    Piano   Different   Three  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

    Reading   Games   Piano  
    "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.
  • Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.

    Song   Writing   Piano  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

    Funny   Music   Keys  
    Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

    Guitar   Ukulele   Play  
  • I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

    Hands   Piano   Singing  
    Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com
  • I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

    Sports   Golf   Love Is  
    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

  • I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

    Piano   Trying   Painting  
    "Caio Fonseca Comes Out Of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.
  • That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

  • The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

    Music   Keys   Piano  
  • The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

    Music   Mean   Air  
  • I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

    Lying   Writing   Rocks  
  • Play always as if in the presence of a master.

    Play   Piano   Masters  
    Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
  • I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

    Piano   Musical   Singing  
  • I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  • My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

    Art   Piano   Crafts  
    "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.
  • Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 16, 2011
  • I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

    Mom   Kids   Artist  
  • They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff.

    Mom   Real   Kids  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

  • When you play, never mind who listens to you.

    Music   Play   Piano  
    Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
  • No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

    Music   Piano   Acoustics  
  • The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

    Funny   Music   Art  
    Quoted in Chicago Daily News, 11 June 1958
  • My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

    Life   Music   Wisdom  
    "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".
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