I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
Caroline Corr

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
Robert Pattinson

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
Luc Ferrari

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

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
Chuck Mangione

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
Robert Quine

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Gyorgy Legeti

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
Gordon Getty

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
Alan Hovhaness

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
Connie Francis

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
Geddy Lee

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.
Ronald Harwood

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
Alicia Witt

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
Debby Boone

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
Ethel Merman

I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.
Jerry Lee Lewis

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek