Piano Quotes

If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

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

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Remember the music is not in the piano.

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.