Piano Quotes · Page 19

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

— Flannery O'Connor

When I'm by myself and get some quiet - when the kids are doing something else - I spend time playing piano.

— Michelle Wu

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

— George Bernard Shaw

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

— Robin Weigert

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

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

— Rafal Blechacz

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel

— Gavin DeGraw

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and…

— Ella Henderson

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored.…

— Lesley Nicol

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a…

— Mark Knopfler

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,…

— Oscar Peterson

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it…

— Phoebe Bridgers

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I…

— Cary Fowler

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better…

— Hugh Laurie

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play…

— Robert B. Laughlin

At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a…

— David Lanz

A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing…

— Michio Kaku

I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her…

— Nicholas Sparks

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something…

— Pablo Casals

Whenever I record something, I always believe that it's worthy of inclusion in the pantheon, and I would certainly like pianists to…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're…

— Nick Hanauer

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I…

— Michel Legrand

I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very…

— Marjoe Gortner

I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard.…

— Regina Spektor

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

— Victor Borge

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

— Sam Hunt

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

— Wynton Marsalis

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

— Jude Law

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

— Stephen Hough

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.

— Eric Garcetti

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

— Victoria Legrand

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

— Evgeni Kostitsyn

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

— Jessi Colter

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way…

— John Legend

“I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.”

— Thad Carhart

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

— Miranda Leek

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

— Boris Johnson