“I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.” SchoolSimpleTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolRhythmPianoChordsAunt Author:Cristin Milioti
“I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.” TryingPlaySongGrowing UpGrowingBandGuitarPiano Author:Page McConnell
“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.” WantWritingYearsWellsPlayTogetherSongRight NowBandGuitarStartingScriptsNinePianoSomedayMy SisterWriting SongsNine Years Author:Kaitlyn Dever
“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.” YearsMadeHomeWould BeWantedAsksFunParentLessonsBandMy FriendsInstrumentsPianoNever QuitPiano LessonPlaying Piano Author:Andrew Hollander
“I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.” RocksCollegeBandGuitarPianoObsessedLos AngelesRebelYoungstersRock BandsPlaying GuitarIndie Rock Author:Jeff Cardoni
“Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for all the musicals in high school and was in a few bands, but never really considered music as a viable career until I was in college.” YearsKidsSchoolCareersCollegeBandTrainingHigh SchoolMusicalPiano Author:John Keltonic
“People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.” PeopleThinkingMonthsBandSixBarsPianoSix Months Author:Billy Joel
“I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.” ReasonKidsCertainSongPlayerAmountProudBandPianoSongwriting Author:Billy Joel
“My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.” YearsFatherPlayerBandBeatsPianoTraveledEthosGinsberg Author:Anne Waldman
“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.” WayWellsPlayBornPlayerTaughtDadBandLateMusicianStandardsAreasJazzMy DadCome UpRadioActiveFantasticPianoTunesBostonTrumpets Author:Chick Corea
“I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.” KindSchoolMiddleBandInstrumentsJazzPianoMy SisterJazz MusicMiddle SchoolSaxophoneJazz Band Author:Miles Teller
“I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.” PlayStudyPlayerPerspectiveListeningGrewBandGrew UpGuitarExpectedPianoComposerGuitar PlayerStudying Music Author:Daniel Rossen
“[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!” KnowsMeanPlayBigsPlayerSubjectsBandDown AndYeahPianoPausesMonkTrumpets Author:Ray Brown
“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.” DreamAgeSchoolCareersStudyPlayerLessonsBandSixHigh SchoolInstrumentsGuitarTeenagerPianoSessionClassical MusicAcademyKeyboardsViennaPiano LessonAfter High SchoolLife After High SchoolTangerines Author:Paul Haslinger
“I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.” TwoPlayHomeWould BeMomBandSingingInstrumentsMusicalMy MomPianoComing HomeMy SisterNot AfraidGeekSaxophoneOlder SisterUncoolClarinetOther Sister Author:Miles Teller
“I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.” StillsMovingBehindsBandDirectGuitarPianoGet BetterTrapped Author:Carole King
“My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.” WritingPlaySongStuffTaughtBrotherDadBandGuitarMy DadPianoGradesAcousticsOlder Brother Author:Conor Oberst
“Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.” KnowsKindLittlesDreamSongRolesBandGuitarBonesTraditionalProducersRhythmPianoStringsSectionsToolboxRhythm SectionGuitar Strings Author:Mark Ronson
“At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.” PlayProblemDreamSchoolFantasyLessonsBandInstrumentsPianoQualifiedI Had A DreamPiano LessonSchool Band Author:Paul Smith
“In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.” WritingHomeRunningWantedSchoolStuffMy OwnRocksStageBandHigh SchoolDecidedInspiredQuittingPianoPunkKeyboardsI QuitIndie Rock Author:Angel Olsen