Piano Quotes
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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.
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If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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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.
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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.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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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.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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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.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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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.
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I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.
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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
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I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
