#pia

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#jam #like #me #parties #people

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?' ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#acting #because #both #bringing #friend

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ↗

— Robert Moog

#allows #any #does #down #human

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

#dancing #expression #form #i #involved

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#first time #i #moments #olympia #pregnant

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#bass #closer #eliminating #i #means

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing. ↗

— Charles Munch

#burden #collective #conscience #every #his

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.' ↗

— Joseph Murray

#each #genetics #geographic #geology #i

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#create #determining #entire #instrument #landscapes

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#enough #great #i #kid #long