I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.
Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.
I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.
I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.
I wanted to play the piano.
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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.
I play piano every day.
The piano is the instrument I can play the most.
I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Horowitz, and Art Tatum. Those are the pianists I really enjoy and admire.
I play the piano and write music.
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 feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.
I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle.
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
