Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.
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Related When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were gre... DAVE BRUBECK I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. ROBIN TROWER I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i... ANNE STEVENSON My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry. MICKY DOLENZ Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't w... ERNEST NEWMAN Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the ... JOE COCKER I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 ... JAMES BROWN I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 t... JAMES BROWN I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends. WANDA JACKSON Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven... KAREN DECROW If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to Th... JACK BLACK Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I w... ZHANG ZIYI In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for t... NELLIE MCKAY I probably would have got him out with a good throw on a bang-bang play, but I couldn't get a good g... CONOR JACKSON I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,... COLM TOIBIN When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins... LAMAR ALEXANDER Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recordi... JIM DIAMOND I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything e... ELTON JOHN I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. KIANA TOM I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City. HARLAND WILLIAMS Before I took lessons, I wouldn't be the first one out on a dance floor. And I certainly would shy a... EMILY ZYWICKE Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. VANESSA MAE When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew... D. A. PENNEBAKER When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school an... BITSIE TULLOCH I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and pe... KID ROCK I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers requir... ANTONIO DAMASIO Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me RICHELLE MEAD I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, ... STEVE MARTIN I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of b... JULIET MILLS I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened... ALLEN IVERSON My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER I've never thought of it before, but I did like Lewis Carroll when I was young. I read Alice in Wond... EVAN JONES I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for th... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me. JAMES SHULER I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let m... TREVOR MOORE I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring... JAMES JOYCE When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. MOLLY RINGWALD I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thoug... TOM WOLFE My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every da... RICHARD FLANAGAN I thought he was OK, but he stopped breathing and they had to put him on a respirator. When I was ab... CODY COLVIN Lee was always the coach on the floor. He was constantly willing to take on the responsibilities of ... DOUG LOWE People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school. JASON BIGGS Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I ... AARON NEVILLE I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I w... MICHAEL HEIZER Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely ne... BOB BECKEL I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just l... STEVE MARTIN One thing (Bears general manager) Jerry Angelo told me when I was hobbling around on crutches -- and... DARRELL CAMPBELL When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a... ATO ESSANDOH I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then... OTIS RUSH We were in the same apartment complex and on the same Little League football squad, and we used to h... DAPHNE BROWN I was concerned about playing a game on the first day of school. We've always thought one of our wor... JOE LABUDA If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to f... STEPHEN LEACOCK When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat. MICHAEL O'DONOGHUE I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a ... JAMIE FOXX I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was y... EVAN PETERS There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this... BILLIE JEAN KING When you find yourself starting to think negatively about a situation that is prominent in your life... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a co... BOB BEAMON I thought about it every day. That made it a little easier, but it was horrible. EDDIE BERTINELLI When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helpin... MADISON PETTIS I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him. DAVID GEMMELL I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE I remember my father saying one word to me as I would walk out to school every day: 'increments.' Ev... WENTWORTH MILLER (Gabrielle) had the biggest smile you've ever seen. She would wake up with a smile every day. She wo... HARRY HENDERSON I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being. One day I would be a better ha... HERMANN HESSE When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed an... DEAN MARTIN When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she coul... JENSON BUTTON My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and... CHRIS ISAAK Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most... CHARLES CALEB COLTON When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlestick... ELTON JOHN I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good ... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI He (Ash) works hard on distance running every day and he runs five miles before school every day. HEATH GIBSON I rushed it a little bit. I couldn't get a good grip on it. It was a bang-bang play, a 50-50 shot. W... CONOR JACKSON When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac... EDGAR WRIGHT There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh ... EDWARD WESTON I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those ... CANDY CROWLEY I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunit... TEDDY THOMPSON [Ellis, who lives in France, recorded some of the violin loops at his house.] It was very different ... WARREN ELLIS I thought it would be a buzz around school, maybe around town, but I never thought it would be this ... BRIAN BENSON I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor littl... DOLLY PARTON I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor l... DOLLY PARTON I was still taking piano lessons up until 18 months ago. If I had one thing I could add to my very f... ANDREA JUNG Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I cor... JOIE LEE The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Pe... SARA SHERIDAN Their initial thought was Lee Carter could assist EnABLES, and I said no way. . . . It's not appropr... HAL BERGAN When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one t... MICKALENE THOMAS I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was ve... CHANTAL AKERMAN Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I d... ENNIO MORRICONE I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ... STEPHEN COLBERT I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, a... DICKEY BETTS The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. TANITH LEE Sometimes they would put me on the post and play me at guard to bring the ball up. I played a lot of... JEFF BLAIR My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied pia... PHILLIPA SOO I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's goi... DRAKE BELL I knew I was going home the whole way, [I] just couldn't get it out of my glove quick enough. I prob... CONOR JACKSON The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid. ALDEN EHRENREICH I had just opened my shop when there was a big bang. I fell on the ground and the roof fell on me. T... MOHAMMAD ALI At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and st... PHILIP ZIMBARDO
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You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But ... KENDRICK LAMAR Bob asked our permission and he certainly didn't have to do that. We didn't have any claim to it, we... LAMAR HUNT When we go to Richmond [to race], hopefully we can do the same things we do in testing, and I can go... BURNEY LAMAR Actually, I was just happy to finish a Busch race. That was actually the first one I ever finished. BURNEY LAMAR We played a great defensive game against Detroit, a great defensive game against Oklahoma (New Orlea... LAMAR ODOM Just to be part of something great, this is history we're living in right now. We changed the face o... LAMAR BUTLER It's indescribable. It's like a dream come true. LAMAR BUTLER The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actua... KENDRICK LAMAR We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go o... KENDRICK LAMAR I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge. KENDRICK LAMAR At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure, CHUCK LAMAR It could have been called a foul. But if it's not, I guess that means I just didn't go hard enough. ... LAMAR ODOM It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve... KENDRICK LAMAR My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-... KENDRICK LAMAR Some of the girls are taller than me and have more muscles than me, but that just makes me run harde... GRETCHEN LAMAR I remember all the people there. It made me want to get back. GRETCHEN LAMAR The administration is on the wrong side of public opinion and the American people when it comes to a... LAMAR SMITH I'd didn't have any idea the game was going to end up like it did today, with me playing such a larg... LAMAR SMITH I believe she's an All-Star caliber player. And I think she's out to prove that. LAMAR SIMMONS I think getting that record would mean a lot for our team because it would show how far we've come. ... LAMAR OWENS I would have been satisfied with a one-point win. But to see our offense take off in the second and ... LAMAR OWENS We wanted to come out here and put it together by playing four quarters of Navy football, and we pla... LAMAR OWENS Every game we play is going to be the biggest game of the year. ... It's in our hands. We can't real... LAMAR ODOM I think for the most part we are ready. We are Pac-10 home ready, that's for sure. It's going to be ... LAMAR HURD The timing is about as bad is it can get. I was playing pretty decent, our team is playing well, (an... LAMAR HURD It's looking pretty bad right now. I can't do much more than a moderate walk. I've never had this ty... LAMAR HURD Coaches are just making a conscious effort to get him the ball. It's just Chris being Chris. Chris h... LAMAR HURD My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call ... KENDRICK LAMAR At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But ... KENDRICK LAMAR If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull.... KENDRICK LAMAR Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bi... LAMAR ODOM My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her. LAMAR ODOM I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no pr... LAMAR ODOM I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion. LAMAR ODOM We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That out... LAMAR HUNT Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98... LAMAR HUNT You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to... LAMAR HUNT He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potenti... LAMAR HUNT The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men arou... KENDRICK LAMAR I've been in their shoes, and it's hard. It's great to see somebody at least have that opportunity. BURNEY LAMAR People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it. KENDRICK LAMAR You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found... KENDRICK LAMAR These lawsuits are nothing but legalized extortion. LAMAR SMITH It didn't change anything. We just had to regroup, keep our poise and fight and claw our way back. LAMAR BUTLER I think it's a Hollywood story already. If anybody wants to make a movie, come see me. I'll play my ... LAMAR BUTLER