Quotes About Expression

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

I grew up with the British-Chicago crossover of house music with a lot of pianos and very heavy bass lines, but what I love about house is you can mix it up a bit.

I wanted to play the piano.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

Music is something that I've been passionate about. I play the piano and sing, but I always knew that it was never going to be my bread and butter. I was very interested in acting.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.

I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.

My muse has always been the piano.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I'd like to be a piano player.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.'