#pia

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#hear #i #i can #keith #listen

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. ↗

— David Amram

#bass #bass player #compliments #doing #drummer

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#front #i #just #mother #piano

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#age #busy #busyness #coincide #come

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be. ↗

— Debby Boone

#be happy #being #being the best #best #happy

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#house #i #many #pianos #plus

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#behind #could #get #got #huge

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#band #because #father #had #jobs

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#beginning #completely #contribute #done #good

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#i #lessons #like #long #long time