#piano

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

#beautiful #beautiful girls #cheerleader #cheerleaders #demolished

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#acoustic guitar #grand #guitar #piano #play

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#ear #grammar #i #know #piano

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. ↗

— James Whistler

#nature #painter #piano #player #say

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#annoying #expression #machine #more #near

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

#along #characters #discover #go #going

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#i #piano #played #younger

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#drums #french #french horn #horn #i

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#competitions #did #i #la #moved

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player. ↗

— James Young

#berry #chuck #did #gonna #got