Playing Piano Quotes - Page 2

• The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.

  Ike Turner

  Moving, Kids, Boys

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• When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

  Katie Cassidy

  Kids, Guitar, Piano

  "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.

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• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Artist

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• My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

  Rashida Jones

  Reading, Games, Piano

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.

  Dan Millman

  Mom, Dream, Song

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• I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

  Burt Bacharach

  School, Piano, Littles

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• I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Country, Children, Teenager

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• I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

  Max Tundra

  Piano, House

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Sports, Golf, Love Is

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

  Caio Fonseca

  Piano, Trying, Painting

  "Caio Fonseca Comes Out Of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

  Laz Alonso

  Art, Piano, Crafts

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Piano, Laughing, Achievement

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Piano, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Piano, Musical, Singing

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• I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Piano, Expression

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• I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.

  Idara Victor

  Growing Up, Years, Play

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• I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

  George Winston

  Piano

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• They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff.

  Andrew W.K.

  Mom, Real, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Piano, Guy

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• I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

  Tom Verlaine

  Lying, Writing, Rocks

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• Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.

  Charlyne Yi

  Song, Writing, Piano

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Thinking, Piano, Giving

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• I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.

  Andrew Hollander

  Fun, Home, Years

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• I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

  Max Schneider

  Guitar, Ukulele, Play

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• Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

  Betsy Byars

  Baseball, Writing, Piano

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