Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one….
The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be..
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.
My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to….
Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is….
She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her..
I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano..
I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then..
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play..
I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment..
It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done o….
I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write ….
Grammar is a piano I play by ear..
Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin..
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another..
I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessive….
The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It i….
I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public..
There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that t….
Success feeds confidence..
'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the ….