Piano Quotes

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

When I'm singing at the piano and I'm having a really nice fun day singing, if I have a headache, the headache will immediately dissipate just the notes going through my head.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.