After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. – Quincy Jones
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. – Robert B. Laughlin
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost รด?2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income. – Rick Wakeman
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early ’50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. – Robert Quine
I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books. – Virginia Euwer Wolff
When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie. – Taj Mahal
I guess, you know, if I didn’t make it with the piano, I guess I would’ve been the biggest bum. – Thelonious Monk
We decided to do some of Merle’s things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. – Tennessee Ernie Ford
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave. – Vanessa Carlton
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. – Vladimir Horowitz
Yeah, I don’t like, um, I’m not interested in rock ‘n’ roll piano. I find it a little grating. – Warren Zevon
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. – Twyla Tharp
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. – Yoko Ono
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men’s’ and women’s’ choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. – Travis Barker