Nina Simone Quotes

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and played back a tune by ear. My parents were watching and said to each other, 'Maybe we should give him music lessons.'

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

I'd be quiet as a mouse if I didn't have the correct feeling about my music. I feel like I'm able to talk about it and say I'm one of the best because I think I got the music to back that up. I got the live show to back that up. That's all that matters.

I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control - it's a lot more relaxed and loose.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.

I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach me some versions of 'Thirupugazh.' And I loved being on stage.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

I was doing my own shows when I was 11 years old.