Piano Quotes · Page 24

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

— Victor Borge

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

— Miguel Sapochnik

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

— Stana Katic

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

— Warren Zevon

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

“He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.”

— Claire Legrand

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it…

— Edgar Winter

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player…

— Benmont Tench

The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar…

— Hiromi

I couldn't sleep one night, and I didn't know what to do, so I came downstairs and started playing the piano. That's…

— Benson Boone

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a…

— August Wilson

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I…

— Volker Bertelmann

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to…

— Brian Austin Green

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get.…

— Betsy Byars

Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend…

— Tony MacAlpine

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie…

— Amy Chua

It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing…

— David Gilmour

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs…

— John C. Reilly

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback…

— Mia Wasikowska

Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and…

— Jimmy Heath

I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the…

— Jane Kaczmarek

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved…

— Jools Holland

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

— Sara Bareilles

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

— Sandra Bullock

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

— Joanna Newsom

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands…

— Angela Carter

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at…

— Brian Wilson

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them…

— Jerry Lee Lewis

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

If I ever go to China, Im going to find a piano and play Chopsticks--only not with my fingers, but rather Ill…

— Tamika-leeigh

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on…

— Yoko Ono

There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a…

— David Essex

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was…

— Odeya Rush

I've done eight grades of piano training from Trinity College and also done my sound engineering course.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

— Ramin Djawadi

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

— Leon Russell