Quotes About Expression

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I play piano every day.

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

I play the piano and write music.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.