Piano Quotes · Page 15

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

— Charles Hazlewood

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

— Kristin Kreuk

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster

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

— Tom Verlaine

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

— Dorothy Cannell

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

— Grace Potter

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

— T. D. Jakes

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is…

— Theodore E. Steinway

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,…

— Richard Coles

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this,…

— Amber Rubarth

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm…

— Alex Ferguson

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the…

— Lynne Truss

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a…

— Debbie Gibson

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me…

— Chris Cornell

I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really…

— Dave Gahan

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with…

— Hermann Hesse

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures…

— Stephen Hough

I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all…

— Chick Corea

The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years…

— Laura Benanti

The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who…

— Ike Turner

My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when…

— Christina Grimmie

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

— Placido Domingo

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

— Ernie Isley

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.

— Adnan Sami

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true…

— Beth Hart

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

— George Polya

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

— Anonymous

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

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

— Fritzie Zivic

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

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

— Gustave Flaubert

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician…

— Marc Martel

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

— Deborah Reber

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

— Ronald Harwood

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

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

— Condola Rashad