Piano Quotes

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well, but he could write. My role was to compose things, but not really play it.

You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I'm not a great piano player.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I play any piano with a good tune.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.