Billy Eckstine Quotes

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I wanted to play the piano.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

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.

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I play the piano and write music.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

Drums were my first instrument.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.