I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [tickling piano keys] They hate this. I like to torture them.
George Baines: [to Ada] Lift your skirt. Life it higher. Higher. Higher! Lift it higher.
Columbus: [a zombie is crushed by a falling piano] Poor flat bastard.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.
My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
I'm a Detroit player, they set styles.
I should be a coach, because when my players win, I win. But when my players lose, what a bunch of losers and hey, don’t blame me, because I wasn’t playing.
Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.
We'd connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
