#piano

He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him. ↗

— Claire Legrand

#keys #music #piano #music

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

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#classical guitar #guitar #i #piano #play

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. ↗

— Tori Amos

#female #fun #good #me #most

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

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#i #lessons #like #long #long time

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance. ↗

— Heinrich Neuhaus

#piano #practicing #art

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano. ↗

— George Duke

#because #could #feet #find #frank

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth. ↗

— Martin Gore

#comes #create #down #guitar #i

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer. ↗

— Morton Gould

#basically #being #composer #conducting #done