I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
I still cherish the memory of walking into the Parliament for the first time.
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I had all of 'Gotterdammerung' in my fingers.
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.