Piano Quotes

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.