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“I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.”

Moments Kids Five Four Listening Grew Grew Up Singing Piano Conception Listening To Music

Author:K. D. Lang

“The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.”

Ifs Knows Trying Hours Player Listening Genius Mark Piano Consistency Naive

Author:David Luiz

“Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.”

Prayer Music Meditation Listening Piano

Author:Kelsey Grammer

“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.”

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Author:Josh Lieb

“As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album, read the lyrics, and just spend hours and hours in there. Plus, my sister Laurie played piano (in fact she taught me my first few notes) so music was always around one way or another.”

Way Firsts Facts Kids Hours Rooms Taught Listening Notes Albums One Way Piano Plus My Sister Listening To Music

Author:Andrew Hollander

“When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.”

Trying Years Play Kids Three Walks Listening Dancing Notes Piano Reaching Three Years Listening To Music Three Year Olds Reaching Up

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano.”

Writing Enjoy Challenges Forget Listening Essence Piano Listeners Improvising

Author:Michael Hersch

“I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.”

Enjoy Listening Late Piano Quartets Wagner Piano Music Mahler

Book:Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key

Source: Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key

“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.”

Play Study Player Perspective Listening Grew Band Grew Up Guitar Expected Piano Composer Guitar Player Studying Music

Author:Daniel Rossen

“I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.”

“I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic.”

Thinking Feels Wells Found Left Player Listening Connections Piano Horns Acoustics

Author:Bill Orcutt

“If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.”

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Author:Eric Benet

“I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.”

School Guy Doors Week Style Listening Stones Jazz Pops Miles Piano Bob Organs Rolling Dylan Rolling Stones Old School Laptops Electronic Music Bowie Rockers Wendy Piano Music Midi

Author:Gordon Raphael

“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.”