Quotes About Expression

I'm not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage with that. I think that's why I'm an actor; if I can physically be in it, I get it.

I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I'm not really a pianist.

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

I want to act in a film like 'The Pianist.'

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it's a hobby I enjoy.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.