Piano Quotes · Page 26

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

“Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the back of…

— Carlos Hernández

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

— Dizzy Gillespie

“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”

— Marisha Pessl

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

— Robert Schumann

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one…

— Freya Ridings

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something…

— Meg Rosoff

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

— Judith Durham

This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a…

— Joe Lovano

From the first album I'm playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of 'em, and drums,…

— J. J. Cale

My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on…

— Omarion

I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness…

— SonReal

My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how…

— Ethan Slater

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is…

— Glenn Gould

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a…

— Conrad Aiken

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I…

— Michael Hersch

I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good…

— Condoleezza Rice

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so…

— Mark Salling

When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it…

— Louis Sachar

“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball,…

— Ally Carter

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this…

— Robert Pattinson

I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with…

— Tom Scholz

A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano…

— Ottorino Respighi

My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.

— Zico

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

— Joe Hisaishi

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

— Harry Connick, Jr

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural…

— Ethel Merman

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

— Charles Bukowski

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

— Jade Hassoune

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write…

— Elton John

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

— Paul McCartney

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

— Victor de Laprade

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

— Howard Shore

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

— Beth Hart

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

— Ani DiFranco

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

— John Cage

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

— Christopher Miller