Piano Quotes - Page 17

• I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Lines, Computer

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• I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Mom, Years, Lessons

  "Kristin Kreuk, Video-Game Vixen". Parade Interview, parade.com. February 26, 2009.

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• My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Hands, Looks

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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Song, Auditions, Has Beens

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• I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

  Frank Ocean

  Play, Enjoy

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

  Aaron Levie

  Weekend, Night, Play

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• I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

  Geddy Lee

  Practice, Discipline, Schedules

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

  Aprilynne Pike

  Musical, Singing, Music Love

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• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  Francine Pascal

  Play, People, Plot

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• We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

  James Young

  Player, Years, Albums

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• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

  Janel Parrish

  Broadway, Six, Jazz

  "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

  Suzi Quatro

  Brother, World, Environment

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• As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Used, Mellow

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• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  Fiona Shaw

  Song, Play, Drawing

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

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• I was a piano player before I was a poet.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Player, Poet

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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, Numbers, Dancing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  K. D. Lang

  Kids, Listening, Singing

  "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Aunt, Simple

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• I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

  Aimee Mann

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

  Chrisette Michele

  Player, Female

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standingMay 20, 2009". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

  Tom Verlaine

  Lessons, Grew Up, Grades

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• Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

  Robert Glasper

  People, Black, Would Be

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• I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

  John Mayall

  Art, School, Play

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• Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

  Caroline Corr

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

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• And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

  Caroline Corr

  Player, Band, Littles

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

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