I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J.
Then when I get home, I sit down at the Fender Rhodes or at the piano and I'll try to harmonize it.
Apart from my classical training in piano, I have learned everything I know about music by watching other people -- many of them the best in their fields -- play online.
And she--her sister used to play the piano, and I stayed in the sight of the piano, dancing.
Backing her up: the churchy piano of Spooner "I Played with Aretha" Oldham, a wailing country guitar and the rootsy sidemen of Drive-By Truckers.
At one point in our conversations, since he is as articulate and often surprising off the piano as on, I asked Mr. Alterman to describe his inner musical odyssey from boyhood in Atlanta to growing recognition in New York and by the jazz community.
I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano, doing mighty fine, I'm gonna make you shake it, I'll make you do it and make you do it until you break it, it's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way, Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day.
Mr. LEWIS: Maybe it's because I started studying piano at four years old and maybe it's because it became a very deep love of mine by the time I was 11, 12 years old.
Then when that scene was over, I'd walk over from the piano and go play the organ for another scene and then - a little pump organ I have, and then I'd pick up the electric guitar again and get all my distorted sounds out of that to go with the Indian drums and the things that were happening in the film.
And we had a beat-up piano in the corner, and I'd play after a fashion, while he played.
Mr. BEN GAFFEN (Piano Tuner, Musician): I was looking around at stuff, and the decent stuff was 450 to 650.
"Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head, and I probably wouldn't have felt it, " Chynna Phillips told the magazine.
" Inspired by this quote, and the music and life of Johnny Cash, I composed a classical piano trio called "Poets and Prophets.
The night ended with Prince dancing on top of his purple baby grand piano to 1987's If I Was Your Girlfriend, which segued into a triumphant, accelerated version of Baby, I'm A Star.
At age 11, I was determined to learn to play the piano like my brothers.
When I arrived, everyone was there except the piano player, so Berry played it.
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"I would almost set up camp under the piano, " she recalled.
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Sometimes I would try and sit and play the piano after they had gone because it was a way of unwinding, but the funny thing was there were all these dummies lined up on the bed and it was slightly spooky playing to half-damaged dummies.
At New York's Apollo Theater, we went down to the stage and I played them "My Girl" on the piano.
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I've worked, of course, with a piano and an orchestra before -- but never with a band.
Like if I wrote about guys who feel compelled to play the piano anytime we pass one by.
The folks at Mudcu.be, who built a lovely color piano music visualizer have nothing to do with Belgium as far as I can tell, but the .be suffix makes for a handy branding opportunity.
"I loved listening, as a kid, to him play the piano, " McCartney says.
On May 19 at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Levine will conduct the Met Orchestra in a program that will include the prelude to Act I of Wagner's "Lohengrin, " Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, featuring piano soloist Evgeny Kissin, and Schubert's Symphony No. 9.
I'd put my guitar down and walk over and play the piano in the bar when there's a bar scene.
When he died, I was as stunned as if he had been killed by a grand piano falling from the top of a building.
Just as a race car driver might discuss the fine points of his engine, I had the hero in my novel "The Soloist" dissect the piano's inner workings in relation to a given piece of music: pedal action, tuning, hammers and bridge.
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And maybe it's because it got to the point during my teens where I just loved the feel and the sound of music in general, the piano specifically.
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