Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my piano with me like a bassist can take his instrument. So whenever I arrive I am a bit nervous to see what kind of piano is waiting for me.
The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.
You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
I'm not a great piano player.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt. . . you weird talking person.
I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.
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.
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?