Piano Quotes

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

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.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Once I meet the piano, I have no other choice, because I need to have a good date right! So I am trying to please the piano to have the best outcome.

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.