Quotes About Expression

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I want to play piano. My girlfriend loves the piano.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

I'm very fond of piano players.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.