Quotes about Piano Playing

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. Votes: 4

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. Votes: 3

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: 3

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now. Votes: 3

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. Votes: 3

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. Votes: 3

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails. Votes: 3

Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree. Votes: 3

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened. Votes: 3

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met. Votes: 3

I play piano every day. Votes: 2

I play the piano and write music. Votes: 2

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Votes: 2

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes. Votes: 2

I play any piano with a good tune. Votes: 2

I play piano every day. I enjoy that. Votes: 2

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. Votes: 2

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. Votes: 2

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. Votes: 2

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. Votes: 2

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. Votes: 2

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret. Votes: 2

I played piano, I learned a lot about music. Votes: 2

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. Votes: 2

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano. Votes: 2

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. Votes: 2

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music. Votes: 2

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily. Votes: 2

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: 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing 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've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano. Votes: 0

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

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? 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 actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. 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 used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. Votes: 0

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

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

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. 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

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

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice. 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

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: 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

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: 0

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways. 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'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit. Votes: 0

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0