#piano

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard. ↗

— George Shearing

#back #crystal #family #foundations #go

Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH! ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#funny #gay #jessica-darling #paul-parlipiano #dreams

If a piano fell from the sky, my first reaction would be, Oh my God! I hope it didn’t crush my bag of chips I left lying on the ground. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#piano #random #funny

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classical #classical composers #composers #different #doin

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

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

— Artur Schnabel

#piano #silence #art

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

— Kristin Kreuk

#insisted #kicked #lessons #many #mom

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#grand #hard #i #i think #keyboard

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do. ↗

— Eric San

#devoted #drums #explore #gamut #individual