Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.
Graham Nash

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'
Dannii Minogue

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.
David Hyde Pierce

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Tom Lehrer

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Neville Marriner

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
James Weldon Johnson

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
Dick Dale

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
Gavin DeGraw

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
Michel Legrand

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
John Legend

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
Brian Austin Green

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
Billy Strayhorn

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
Marian McPartland

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
Robert B. Laughlin

My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.
Irene Cara

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

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
Johnny Winter

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
John Hawkes