Piano Quotes

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go

I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

I play piano every day.

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

I really like your playing

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.

The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind

I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.

Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the back of a lover.