Benmont Tench quote: "I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on."

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON

I'm not a great piano player.
NORAH JONES

I think I'm a very poor piano player.
RAY MANZAREK

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a...
RAY MANZAREK

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
SAM HUNT

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I th...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm ...
RYNE SANDBERG

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't pl...
CHARLIE HUNTER

I'd like to be a piano player.
CHRIS DAUGHTRY

I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or so...
BENNY BLANCO

Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songw...
TOBIAS JESSO, JR.

The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's l...
EARL KLUGH

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking pian...
ERIC LEWIS

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
ADAM JONES

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
MACEO PARKER

I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
PATRICK KANE

I am not an organ donor, but I once gave an old piano to the Salvation Army.
UNKNOWN

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figure...
BRIAN WILSON

I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
TABITHA SOREN

I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player i...
HARRY S TRUMAN

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that ki...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

I was a piano player before I was a poet.
GIL SCOTT-HERON

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
JOHN KRUK

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don'...
HARRY CONNICK, JR.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everyt...
CARMELO ANTHONY

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and...
JEFF BRIDGES

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ fre...
FKA TWIGS

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers...
TIPPI HEDREN

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with t...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's ...
EDEN HAZARD

Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player w...
DAVID HEARN

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN

It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type ...
BEN SIMMONS

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; ...
BRENDON URIE

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely deb...
KOBE BRYANT

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at...
VANESSA CARLTON

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I ...
KEVIN DURANT

The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportu...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at ...
KAT DENNINGS

To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I ...
KEVIN LOVE

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like wh...
RIC OCASEK

You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's bee...
TONY PARKER

Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all t...
VINCE GILL

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to pl...
HOLLY HUNTER

I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used ...
ACTION BRONSON

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ...
TOM VERLAINE

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,'...
HOLLY HUNTER

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano inst...
RICKY MARTIN

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
D. J. MACHALE

I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're qui...
SIENNA GUILLORY

I'm Liberace without a piano.
PAUL LYNDE

I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings t...
JAMES YOUNG

I've been a city councilman and mayor. I've been a lieutenant governor and governor and now,...
TIM KAINE

It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.
KAWHI LEONARD

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original...
STEVE YZERMAN

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try...
PAUL PIERCE

I'm a player, the coaches coach.
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We'v...
TOM PETTY

He's a real good piano player and, when he makes beat, I like going to the room and listening.
ANDRE MCMILLAN

I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades part...
WILSON BETHEL

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played...
DANIEL SUNJATA

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi...
NAT WOLFF

I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old...
CHARLIE ADAM

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.
BRUCE HORNSBY

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
AUSTIN BUTLER

She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
CONRAD COLEMAN

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the gu...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
LEE DEWYZE

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been ...
MANDY PATINKIN

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.
DAVID LAMBERT

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just b...
DOUGLAS HODGE

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote the...
J. D. SOUTHER

What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
DANIEL ADAIR

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player...
PETE ROSE

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I did...
GABRIELLE APLIN

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling...
NAT KING COLE

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I...
MIKE GORDON

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned a...
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
DAVID BALDACCI

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
DAVE NAVARRO

Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like ...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.
JIM FLAHERTY

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
JOHN FOGERTY

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
RYAN MCPARTLIN

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

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