Quotes about Piano

The piano has been drinking, not me. Votes: 4

The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. Votes: 4

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. Votes: 4

Piano is like drudgery. Votes: 3

A Composition on the Piano Votes: 3

Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode. Votes: 3

Give Me A Piano And I Will Give You Music. Votes: 3

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings. Votes: 3

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. Votes: 3

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. Votes: 3

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano. Votes: 3

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument. Votes: 3

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.' Votes: 3

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Votes: 3

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Votes: 3

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano". Votes: 3

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. Votes: 3

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. Votes: 3

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. Votes: 3

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. Votes: 3

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with. Votes: 3

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story. Votes: 3

I'm Liberace without a piano. Votes: 2

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. Votes: 2

When you play, never mind who listens to you. Votes: 2

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. Votes: 2

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. Votes: 2

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano Votes: 2

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. Votes: 2

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. Votes: 2

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. Votes: 2

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. Votes: 2

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. Votes: 2

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Votes: 2

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. Votes: 2

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. Votes: 2

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift. Votes: 2

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. Votes: 2

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. Votes: 1

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano! Votes: 1

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. Votes: 1

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing 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. Votes: 1

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. Votes: 1

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Votes: 1

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston. Votes: 1

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything. Votes: 1

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break. Votes: 1

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. Votes: 1

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life. Votes: 1

When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one. Votes: 1

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. Votes: 1

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano. Votes: 1

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. Votes: 1

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. Votes: 1

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned. Votes: 1

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. Votes: 1

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. Votes: 1

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. Votes: 1

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. Votes: 1

I play piano every day. Votes: 0

I don't like piano solos. Votes: 0

I'm not a great piano player. Votes: 0

You bang that piano real nice. Votes: 0

I'm very fond of piano players. Votes: 0

The piano is not firewood -- yet. Votes: 0

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. Votes: 0

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes Votes: 0

I bet you can't play slide piano. Votes: 0

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Votes: 0

I play the piano and write music. Votes: 0

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes. Votes: 0

I'd like to be a piano player. Votes: 0

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18. Votes: 0

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. Votes: 0

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player! Votes: 0

The piano is kind of my second instrument. Votes: 0

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. Votes: 0

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano. Votes: 0

Remember the music is not in the piano. Votes: 0

Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys. Votes: 0

I think I'm a very poor piano player. Votes: 0

I play piano every day. I enjoy that. Votes: 0

The pedal is the soul of the piano. Votes: 0

I play any piano with a good tune. Votes: 0

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. Votes: 0

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. Votes: 0

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. Votes: 0

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know Votes: 0

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players. Votes: 0

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. Votes: 0

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret. Votes: 0

To master the piano is to master the universe. Votes: 0

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. Votes: 0

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal. Votes: 0

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. Votes: 0

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. Votes: 0

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. Votes: 0

I played piano, I learned a lot about music. Votes: 0

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench. Votes: 0

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally. Votes: 0

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. Votes: 0

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies. Votes: 0

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano. Votes: 0

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb. Votes: 0

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy. Votes: 0

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. Votes: 0

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music. Votes: 0

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors Votes: 0

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five. Votes: 0

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw. Votes: 0

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano. Votes: 0

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano. Votes: 0

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano. Votes: 0

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me. Votes: 0

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. Votes: 0

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me. Votes: 0

I play piano and write better than I can sing. Votes: 0

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano. Votes: 0

I was a piano player before I was a poet. Votes: 0

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys. Votes: 0

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano, Votes: 0

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano. Votes: 0

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. Votes: 0

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano. Votes: 0

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation. Votes: 0

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone. Votes: 0

I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her. Votes: 0

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour. Votes: 0

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Votes: 0

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving. Votes: 0

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third. Votes: 0

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. Votes: 0

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you Votes: 0

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. Votes: 0

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice Votes: 0

Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. Votes: 0

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. Votes: 0

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you. Votes: 0

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. Votes: 0

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. Votes: 0

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person. Votes: 0

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing. Votes: 0

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano. Votes: 0

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. Votes: 0

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity. Votes: 0

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house. Votes: 0

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity Votes: 0

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house Votes: 0

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. Votes: 0

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates. Votes: 0

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did. Votes: 0

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool. Votes: 0

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals. Votes: 0

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones. Votes: 0

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive. Votes: 0

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano. Votes: 0

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano. Votes: 0

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano. Votes: 0

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit. Votes: 0

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade. Votes: 0

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano. Votes: 0

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. Votes: 0

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion. Votes: 0

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion. Votes: 0

Chopin has done for the piano what Schubert has done for the voice. Votes: 0

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous. Votes: 0

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano? Votes: 0

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both. Votes: 0

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. Votes: 0

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it. Votes: 0

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. Votes: 0

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it. Votes: 0

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano Votes: 0

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano. Votes: 0

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons. Votes: 0

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child. Votes: 0

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all. Votes: 0

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear. Votes: 0

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. Votes: 0

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music. Votes: 0

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet. Votes: 0

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes. Votes: 0

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work. Votes: 0

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano. Votes: 0

This was a pretty girl, except she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano... Votes: 0

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune. Votes: 0

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. Votes: 0

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. Votes: 0

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag. Votes: 0

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. Votes: 0

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied. Votes: 0

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear. Votes: 0

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. Votes: 0

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody. Votes: 0

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. Votes: 0

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano. Votes: 0

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes. Votes: 0

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. Votes: 0

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 0

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least. Votes: 0

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. Votes: 0

Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains. Votes: 0

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. Votes: 0

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember. Votes: 0

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. Votes: 0

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano. Votes: 0

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. Votes: 0

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. Votes: 0

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. Votes: 0

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax. Votes: 0

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. Votes: 0

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. Votes: 0

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow) Votes: 0

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano. Votes: 0

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living. Votes: 0

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. Votes: 0

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano. Votes: 0

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' Votes: 0

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice. Votes: 0

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them Votes: 0

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. Votes: 0

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. Votes: 0

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ... Votes: 0

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano. Votes: 0

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel. Votes: 0

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life. Votes: 0

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano. Votes: 0

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart." Votes: 0

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. Votes: 0

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age. Votes: 0

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind. Votes: 0

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto Votes: 0

Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys. Votes: 0

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano. Votes: 0

My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing. Votes: 0

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. Votes: 0

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. Votes: 0

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings. Votes: 0

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. Votes: 0

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. Votes: 0

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. Votes: 0

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb. Votes: 0

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged. Votes: 0

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto" Votes: 0

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. Votes: 0

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. Votes: 0

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? Votes: 0

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano. Votes: 0

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much. Votes: 0

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. Votes: 0

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors. Votes: 0

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano. Votes: 0

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years. Votes: 0

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. Votes: 0

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Votes: 0

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power Votes: 0

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. Votes: 0

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll Votes: 0

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater. Votes: 0

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. Votes: 0

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. Votes: 0

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine. Votes: 0

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play. Votes: 0

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing. Votes: 0

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter. Votes: 0

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play. Votes: 0

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School. Votes: 0

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. Votes: 0

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. Votes: 0

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. Votes: 0

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. Votes: 0

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college. Votes: 0

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano. Votes: 0

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting. Votes: 0

The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind. Votes: 0

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own. Votes: 0

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track. Votes: 0

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. Votes: 0

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come! Votes: 0

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands. Votes: 0

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. Votes: 0

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! Votes: 0

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. Votes: 0

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic. Votes: 0

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. Votes: 0

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. Votes: 0

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano. Votes: 0

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece. Votes: 0

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. Votes: 0

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano. Votes: 0

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. Votes: 0

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life. Votes: 0

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. Votes: 0

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. Votes: 0

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams. Votes: 0

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. Votes: 0

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings. Votes: 0

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active. Votes: 0

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. Votes: 0

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. Votes: 0

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons. Votes: 0

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. Votes: 0

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano Votes: 0

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. Votes: 0

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then. Votes: 0

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Votes: 0

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. Votes: 0

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time. Votes: 0

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." Votes: 0

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus. Votes: 0

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. Votes: 0

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three. Votes: 0

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce. Votes: 0

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music. Votes: 0

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings. Votes: 0

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. Votes: 0

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. Votes: 0

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. Votes: 0

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know Votes: 0

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano. Votes: 0

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band. Votes: 0

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano. Votes: 0

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano Votes: 0

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years. Votes: 0

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs. Votes: 0

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it. Votes: 0

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up. Votes: 0

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere. Votes: 0

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. Votes: 0

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. Votes: 0

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend. Votes: 0

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo. Votes: 0

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid. Votes: 0

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano. Votes: 0

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun. Votes: 0

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years. Votes: 0

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano. Votes: 0

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't. Votes: 0

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus. Votes: 0

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano? Votes: 0

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily. Votes: 0

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano. Votes: 0

I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano Votes: 0

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we? Votes: 0

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere. Votes: 0

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play. Votes: 0

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. Votes: 0

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. Votes: 0

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune. Votes: 0

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. Votes: 0

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all. Votes: 0

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. Votes: 0

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist. Votes: 0

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet. Votes: 0

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential. Votes: 0

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth. Votes: 0

Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions. Votes: 0

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please. Votes: 0

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano Votes: 0

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. Votes: 0

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own. Votes: 0

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.' Votes: 0

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people. Votes: 0

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade. Votes: 0

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. Votes: 0

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented. Votes: 0

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. Votes: 0

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. Votes: 0

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. Votes: 0

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano. Votes: 0

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. Votes: 0

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. Votes: 0

If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose. Votes: 0

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. Votes: 0

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13. Votes: 0

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics. Votes: 0

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that. Votes: 0

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me. Votes: 0

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. Votes: 0

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. Votes: 0

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs. Votes: 0

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it Votes: 0

I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time. Votes: 0

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel. Votes: 0

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony. Votes: 0

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. Votes: 0

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. Votes: 0

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do! Votes: 0

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.' Votes: 0

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. Votes: 0

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. Votes: 0

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. Votes: 0

I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice. Votes: 0

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales. Votes: 0

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. Votes: 0

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played Votes: 0

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel Votes: 0

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute. Votes: 0

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. Votes: 0

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. Votes: 0

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me. Votes: 0

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do. Votes: 0

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture! Votes: 0

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. Votes: 0

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. Votes: 0

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. Votes: 0

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. Votes: 0

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. Votes: 0

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument. Votes: 0

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano. Votes: 0

Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs. Votes: 0

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano. Votes: 0

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. Votes: 0

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany. Votes: 0

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good. Votes: 0

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that. Votes: 0

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. Votes: 0

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. Votes: 0

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. Votes: 0

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment. Votes: 0

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. Votes: 0

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal. Votes: 0

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. Votes: 0

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house. Votes: 0

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. Votes: 0

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming. Votes: 0

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. Votes: 0

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff. Votes: 0

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano. Votes: 0

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that. Votes: 0

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist? Votes: 0

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? Votes: 0

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be. Votes: 0

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano. Votes: 0

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me. Votes: 0

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs. Votes: 0

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body. Votes: 0

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano. Votes: 0

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people. Votes: 0

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing. Votes: 0

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano. Votes: 0

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano. Votes: 0

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano. Votes: 0

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. Votes: 0

Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up. Votes: 0

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. Votes: 0

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano. Votes: 0

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be. Votes: 0

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir. Votes: 0

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. Votes: 0

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script. Votes: 0

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano. Votes: 0

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired. Votes: 0

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun! Votes: 0

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is Votes: 0

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been. Votes: 0

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. Votes: 0

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist! Votes: 0

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to. Votes: 0

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart. Votes: 0

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. Votes: 0

Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck. Votes: 0

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0