Piano Quotes

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.

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

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

I bet you can't play slide piano.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.