Piano Quotes

Piano Quote of the day

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

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

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

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

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

A Composition on the Piano

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.