Piano Quotes · Page 21

I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get…

— Michael Feinstein

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

— Yefim Bronfman

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

— Anonymous

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

— Tom Odell

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

— Mike Shinoda

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

— Gary Oldman

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

— Billie Eilish

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

— Alicia Witt

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll…

— George Gershwin

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical…

— Phillipa Soo

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen…

— Kerli

It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think,…

— Jacob Collier

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the…

— Ellen Hollman

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing…

— Birdy

“I could see us sitting at the old piano, while he tried to explain how music worked. I could see the Iron…

— Julie Kagawa

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but…

— Joshua L. Liebman

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was…

— Dr. John

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he…

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano…

— Russell Sherman

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind…

— Robert Schumann

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a…

— Paul Strand

I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a…

— Gerard Cox

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

— Thelonious Monk

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

— Joseph Parker

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip…

— Liberace

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

— Eric Roth

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

— David Levithan

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

— Jack Black

The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play…

— Ramin Djawadi

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

— Rian Johnson

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

— Eddie Izzard

“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the…

— Rebecca West

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

— Samuel Barber

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the…

— Drake Bell

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

— Mike Figgis