#pia

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#jazz #limit #many #personal #personal style

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#because #been #big #big thing #finally

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#boy #brothers #cambodia #daughter #elation

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#basement #disgusted #i #just #make

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#classical #guitar #i #percussion #piano

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#expansive #great #guitar #more #much

I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#always #competing #experience #goal #great

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. ↗

— Little Richard

#banging #i #like #old #piano

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. ↗

— Keith Richards

#bored #broom #get #give #give me