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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

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.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology