#pia

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #than #utopia

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#ear #i #learned #piano #play

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#called #coffee #disparity #ethiopia #farmer

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#been #blessed #classical #fit #fortunately

I'm not a great piano player. ↗

— Norah Jones

#i #piano #piano player #player

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#competent #consider #extraordinary #i #i do

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. ↗

— Billy Joel

#because #books #boxing #drawn #got

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. ↗

— Elton John

#comes #i #i am #i can #making

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#dinner #dinner parties #go #i #i write