Bob Hope Quotes

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

I play the piano and write music.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I play a bunch of instruments.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

One of the great regrets of my life is that I don't play piano.

I wanted to play the piano.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

Nick is an amazing musician. He's really focused.

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

You wanna boycott me, that's fine, but I'm not changing my advertising.

My muse has always been the piano.