I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.
He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.
No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.
There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano
One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.
The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.
The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
I probably have taught a few people a lesson when it comes to opening their mouth and maybe thinking before you speak.
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.
Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.
Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
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.
When I'm by myself and get some quiet - when the kids are doing something else - I spend time playing piano.
I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.
Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
Gilmore Girls' was really a training ground for so many things. It's a real endurance lesson.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.
Everyone is a product of their own environment, and that, I think, has actually been the key lesson for me.
There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson
The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.
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