#pia

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

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ↗

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#down #i #i always #laid #musicians

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

#american #american music #band #because #got

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#else #friends #i #introduce #me

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#i #look #out #rivers #run

The piano has been drinking, not me. ↗

— Tom Waits

#drinking #me #piano

Utopia means elsewhere. ↗

— John Malkovich

#means #utopia

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. ↗