#piano

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#apartment #bench #five #get #half

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#acoustic guitar #best #best way #creating #different

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it. ↗

— Freddie Hubbard

#blowing #brother #everybody #fred #get

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#anyone #guitar #knows #majority #matter

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i write #job #know #piano #play

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#between #both #difference #feel #films

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. ↗

— David Bowie

#mine #nearly #piano #some #synth

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#dad #everybody #guitar #i #keep

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#because #been #everything #first #first love

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes. ↗

— Harold Budd

#piano #plays #somebody #sometimes #who