I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
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.
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
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.
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.
I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
