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My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

— Michel Legrand

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

— Michael Morpurgo

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

— Prince

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.

— Eliza Coupe

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

— Heather Morris

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

— David Hyde Pierce

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

— Vin Diesel

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

— Michael Franti

My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

— Daniel Bruhl

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

— Quentin Bryce

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

— Johnny Winter