Piano Quotes

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.

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

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.