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My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.


John Legend


#big #big break #break #called #came

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.


George Shearing


#avoid #awful #being #couple #giving

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.


George Shearing


#few #first #i #movement #mozart

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.


Mike Stoller


#always #far #greater #i #jazz

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.


Twyla Tharp


#description #every #formal #german #had

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?


Jim Capaldi


#asleep #finished #half #head #i

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.


Maximilian Schell


#i #learned #lot #music #piano

Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.


Francesca Lia Block


#piano #pianos #love

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.


Gustave Flaubert


#keyboard #love #madame-bovary #music #piano

When I’m lonely I stand in the corner and play my saxophone and feel sorry for myself. I would ask you to accompany me on the piano, but if I did that I wouldn’t be lonely, would I? And what’s the point of a saxophone if not to celebrate despair?



Jarod Kintz


#celebrate #celebration #despair #funny #humor