Quotes by Piano Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. Ben Folds piano play I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. Ben Gibbard piano lines writing Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be. Benjamin Clementine piano mistake thinking Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. Benjamin Disraeli piano music beautiful Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do. Benny Carter piano house want It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening. Beth Nielsen Chapman piano guitar voice Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails. Betsy Byars piano baseball writing Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano. Bill Bruford piano pieces writing The piano is kind of my second instrument. Bill Bruford instruments piano kind I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day. Bill Crow piano numbers beautiful Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. Bill Gates piano singing quality I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic. Bill Orcutt piano player thinking I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good. Billy Joel piano play years People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands. Billy Joel piano people thinking Sing us a song you're the piano man. Billy Joel piano song men I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years. Billy Joel piano mother years I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship. Billy Joel consistency piano long I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice. Billy Joel piano voice player My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. Billy Strayhorn piano grandmother littles Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano. Billy Sunday piano home needs «1234567891011»