Piano Quotes
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I don't like piano solos.
Warren Zevon
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
Laura Mvula
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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.
Nat Wolff
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
T. D. Jakes
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
Quincy Jones
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
Laura Mvula
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
Yoko Ono
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
Warren Zevon
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
Vanessa Carlton
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
Billy Joel
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
William Francis Buckley
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
Samuel Barber
