Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano
I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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.
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
I am taking Chinese lessons and I practice speaking Mandarin almost every day.
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
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.
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.
Fathers teach their best lessons to their children
by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.
There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.
I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'
I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true voice is.
I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.
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.
Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.
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.
Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
Dancing all night and then vocal lessons right after was hard and not unusual - but I enjoyed it.
One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.
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.
Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
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?
The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.
Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.
I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.
We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
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