Piano Quotes · Page 14

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

— Oscar Wilde

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

— Robert Schumann

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

— Kid Rock

“James Benwick is rather too piano for me;”

— Jane Austen

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

— Brian Wilson

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

— Jerry Lee Lewis

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

— Dick Dale

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

— Beth Phoenix

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

— Masi Oka

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put…

— Elizabeth Fraser

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

— Stana Katic

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

— Denny Laine

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

— Frederic Chopin

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my…

— Hiromi

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a…

— Alfred Stieglitz

There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a…

— John Tesh

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me…

— Rufus Wainwright

My uncle was an Indian singer for a long time. He was pretty popular in India. He was one of the first…

— Nav

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons…

— Tobe Hooper

I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to…

— Sarah Weinman

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer…

— Bo Burnham

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I…

— Ian Axel

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or…

— Patrick Watson

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to…

— Holly Hunter

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,…

— Caleb Landry Jones

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself…

— Matthew James Thomas

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

— Gordon Raphael

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

— Thelonious Monk

The piano is an orchestra with 88… things, you know

— Vladimir Horowitz

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in…

— Laurie Graham

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

— Zaytoven

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

— Joseph Parker

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

— Andrew W.K

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

— Tommy Bolin