#pia

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#be a man #had #handling #i #job

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well? ↗

— Jen Naumann

#dystopian #dystopian-fiction #life-and-death #death

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#back #day #depressed #every #every day

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#could #i #kid #kill #little

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. ↗

— Michael Storm

#guitar #hardly #i #piano #play

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#classical #conception #could #ever #five

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Frank Langella

#concert pianist #four #hot #i #pianist

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#drawn #existence #footloose #go #grab

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#great #logic #mediocre #men #most