Piano Quotes · Page 18

I've always wanted to walk into a hotel, sit at a piano and play 'Piano Man.'

— Bill Cowher

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

— Chris Daughtry

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

— Vladimir Ashkenazy

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

— Billy Sunday

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

— David Mamet

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

— Brooke Hogan

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

— Marilyn Monroe

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

— Abigail Washburn

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet,…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life,…

— Lzzy Hale

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what…

— Elle Fanning

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing…

— William Singe

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone.…

— Cherry Jones

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged…

— Kamasi Washington

I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody…

— Liam Howlett

“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at…

— Trey Parker

“~Dance~ My fingers dance On the set Of ivory & black pirouettes. I let go While my fingers fly, Making music through…

— Rachel Nicole Wagner

Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If…

— Marketa Irglova

I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing.…

— Mark Ruffalo

I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and…

— Tim Minchin

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?…

— Anonymous

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at…

— Janine di Giovanni

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

— Bobby McFerrin

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can…

— Anonymous

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but…

— Thomas Carlyle

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

— Tori Amos

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

— Joseph Addison

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

— Nicholas Haslam

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

— Martin Gore

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

— Van Cliburn

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

— Eric Lewis

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear…

— Michel Legrand

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

— Sheri L. Dew

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on…

— Borns

“When it was for you," he said, his voice soft. "I enjoyed playing the piano when it was for you.”

— Julie Murphy-Side Effects May Vary

“Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.”

— David Eagleman

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

— Mao Zedong