Piano Quotes

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.

To master the piano is to master the universe.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.

Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you?

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.

I play the piano and write music.

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.