I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
Enya

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
Lesley Gore

I don't like piano solos.
Warren Zevon

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

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
Arthur Godfrey

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.
Harry Nilsson

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
Gary Oldman

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
Carla Bley

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
Tom Verlaine

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.
Thelonious Monk

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.
Billy Preston

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

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
Carter Burwell

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
Gavin DeGraw

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Sean Lennon

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
Placido Domingo

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
George Shearing

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
Beck

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Marvin Gaye

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
Charlie Haden