I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. — Kiana Tom Copy Share Image
I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch. — Jerry Lee Lewis Copy Share Image
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish… — Maurice Gibb Copy Share Image
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They… — Kate Furnivall Copy Share Image
Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing.… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You're My Inspiration Since the first day I met you, you've caught my attention and you were sick. Right away I wanted… — Auston Chavez Copy Share Image
The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been… — Laura Marano Copy Share Image
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get.… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Today is Thursday, Vallejo is dying, but come, girl, get your raincoat, let's look for life in some cafe behind tear-streaked windows,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
