Piano Quotes · Page 22

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

— Robert Quine

I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.

— Sara Bareilles

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

— Margot Asquith

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

— Caroline Corr

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

— Chirlane McCray

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

— Al Capp

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

— Warren Zevon

“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a…

— Nathan Reese Maher

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like…

— Marilyn Monroe

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang…

— Arthur Darvill

I sound like a crazy person... but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment…

— Hiromi Uehara

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our…

— Laura Allen

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the…

— George Shearing

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he…

— Freddie Hubbard

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that…

— John Legend

It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot…

— Michala Petri

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano…

— John Gokongwei

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other…

— Frank Schoonmaker

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.…

— Ringo Starr

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled…

— Gail Zappa

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to…

— Brendon Urie

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes…

— Jack Kornfield

When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave…

— Condoleezza Rice

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

— Billy Eckstine

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

— Trent Reznor

Life is like a piano, there are black and white and you have to play both to have a beautiful melody!

— Anonymous

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

— Alan Greenspan

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

— Ben Gibbard

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the…

— Kelsey Grammer

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like,…

— Allison Janney

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the…

— Anthony Kiedis

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr

“It has no piano part,” Honoria reminded her. “I have no objection,” Sarah said quickly. From behind the piano.”

— Julia Quinn

I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.

— Henry Mancini

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

— Travis Barker

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

— Matt Damon

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

— Billy Taylor

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

— Artur Schnabel