Piano Quotes

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

Strive always to improve the instrument.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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.

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

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

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

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

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!

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.