#pia

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. ↗

— Josh Groban

#bell #composing #day #drums #every

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#been #drums #guitar #i #into

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#i #just #off #piano #rattle

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. ↗

— William Hague

#doing #gave #i #i love #lots

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. ↗

— William Hague

#books #day #go #i #one day

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#america #brother #classical #except #good

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#blessed #ears #fingers #fooled #good

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#developed #ear #ears #eric #eric clapton