Piano Quotes

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

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

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

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

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.

I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

I'd like to be a piano player.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.