Piano Quotes · Page 27

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and…

— Lisa Stansfield

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

— Mose Allison

“What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?” “A piano.” “Simon.”

— Cassandra Clare

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

— Fiona Shaw

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time…

— Anonymous

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

— Caroline Corr

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

— Andrew W.K

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea…

— Grace Potter

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish…

— Etta James

One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take…

— Gabriella Wilson

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all…

— Ella Henderson

I had no clue of Hollywood until I became a teenager. Then I got a fake ID in Tijuana and discovered Shelly's…

— John Densmore

I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really…

— Vanessa Hudgens

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme…

— George Shearing

I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did…

— Adria Petty

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing…

— Henry Hazlitt

A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played…

— Frederic Chopin

My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They…

— Bonobo

“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to…

— Josh Lieb

I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of…

— Anne Waldman

I think bout u every mornin when I open my eyes... I think bout u and ur piano just a playing away……

— Tiffany Jones

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here…

— Daniel Keyes

“Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really -…

— Anonymous

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

— Frederic Chopin

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in…

— Laurie Graham

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

— Zaytoven

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

— Joseph Parker

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put…

— Elizabeth Fraser

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

— Stana Katic

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

— Denny Laine

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she…

— Katy B

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

— Sriram Raghavan

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

— Leo Kottke

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

— Geoff Downes