Daya Quotes

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

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.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

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.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important part of my life.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

When I was 8 years old, I was already very interested in music.

I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don't have a good knowledge of harmony and can't identify rhythm signatures very easily either.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.