#pia

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#competent #consider #extraordinary #i #i do

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. ↗

— Billy Joel

#because #books #boxing #drawn #got

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. ↗

— Elton John

#comes #i #i am #i can #making

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#dinner #dinner parties #go #i #i write

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#always #appearance #especially #good #guest

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. ↗

— Adam Jones

#many #opiate #out #songs #time

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano. ↗

— Norah Jones

#guitar #i #i do #more #piano

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands. ↗

— Norah Jones

#how #i #know #piano #stand

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ↗