Piano Quotes

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

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.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

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.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.

You bang that piano real nice.

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.