I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
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.
The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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?'
I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
Lestat: [after Claudia kills the piano teacher] Claudia, what have we told you? Claudia: Never in the house.
Mr. Lipa: 2,000 and my advice is to take it. What will you do when you're hungry? Eat the piano?
