Quotes about Playing the Piano

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. Votes: 4

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. Votes: 3

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. Votes: 3

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing. Votes: 3

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear. Votes: 3

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ... Votes: 3

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember. Votes: 3

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. Votes: 3

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 3

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. Votes: 3

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. Votes: 3

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time. Votes: 3

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. Votes: 3

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. Votes: 3

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. Votes: 3

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't. Votes: 3

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. Votes: 3

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know Votes: 3

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. Votes: 3

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: 3

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me. Votes: 3

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice. Votes: 3

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house. Votes: 3

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. Votes: 3

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: 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 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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio. Votes: 3

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: 3

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. Votes: 3

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. 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: 3

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him. Votes: 3

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful. Votes: 3

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. Votes: 3

I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear. Votes: 3

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music. Votes: 3

The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. Votes: 3

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there! Votes: 3

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. Votes: 3

I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool. Votes: 3

I play the piano and write music. Votes: 2

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

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

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. 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 guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Votes: 2

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

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. Votes: 2

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear. Votes: 2

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano. Votes: 2

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band. Votes: 2

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented. Votes: 2

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. 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'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: 2

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. Votes: 2

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while. Votes: 2

Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud. Votes: 2

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

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

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

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

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

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. 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 have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. Votes: 0

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

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? 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 play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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'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

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 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: 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

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15. Votes: 0

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9. 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

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths. Votes: 0

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer. Votes: 0

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates Votes: 0