Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.
Vonda Shepard
GoodYouStudentWritePianoCall
Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
Liza Minnelli
PeopleMeSingingUpPianoWell
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
Rashida Jones
ReadingFriendsGamesPianoPlaying
Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say, 'Okay, I've got my thing together.' Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and maybe Chick Corea. Or maybe before that, Oscar Peterson.
Jason Moran
TogetherSayListenOkayPianoCall
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
Laurie Graham
LadyLegsOverUpPianoHeavy
I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.
Jonathan Tropper
HelpLuckyNeverBandPianoGot
I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.
Gene Weingarten
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I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.
Dianne Reeves
LifeMusicMy LifePianoWhoMuch
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S Truman
HousePresidentUpPianoBeenWould
What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.
Delta Goodrem
MeGuitarNowPianoAcoustic
I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.
Carolyn Kizer
PenCarryPianoEasierThanAround
I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
Christopher Egan
LoveMy OwnApartmentOwnPianoEar
I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.
Dave Davies
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I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
Condola Rashad
SchoolHigh SchoolKidHighPiano
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
Ben Gibbard
WritingPlansOutPianoLinesLike
When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
Brendon Urie
HouseKidDrumOutPianoGarage
The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
Warren Zevon
SaidRockPianoBeingRollLike
I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.
Bruce Hornsby
PlayLivingKidPianoGet
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Taylor Hawkins
WeekHouseDownPlayPianoPlaying
I play the piano and write music.
Anwar Robinson
MusicPlayWritePiano
What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.
Ramin Djawadi
BeautifulColdWarmSoundPiano
I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
Alicia Keys
LoveMePlayDyingPianoKnew
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
TechnologySisterMorePianoMachine
I play any piano with a good tune.
Pinetop Perkins
GoodPlayPianoAnyTune
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