#piano

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. ↗

— Elton John

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Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano. ↗

— Kiernan Shipka

#been #i #piano #playing #say

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#biggest influence #bud #influence #piano #playing

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#grandmother #i #little #little things #me

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#had #i #instrument #lots #mother

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 played piano, I learned a lot about music. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

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