#piano

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#background #became #by the time #compositional #doing

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies. ↗

— Vanessa Brown

#actually #also #because #classically #could

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie. ↗

— Zach Braff

#i #lessons #make #movie #other

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#i #myself #piano #play #taught

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#doing #guess #i #kid #know

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#both #different #grandmothers #had #household

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive. ↗

— Judy Collins

#always #encouraged #father #great #had

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#book #boundaries #canvas #color #crossed

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#am #even #express #i #i am

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#anthem #attorney #back #campaign #dad