Piano Quotes · Page 28

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

— Kiana Tom

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

— Elton John

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

— Billy Joel

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear…

— Richie Havens

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

— Joel Grey

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most…

— Carter Burwell

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good…

— Jack Black

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and…

— Aaron Zigman

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand…

— Anonymous

“I hadn't done any fooling around in so long, I didn't know what to do. I sort of wanted to lose weight…

— Hilary Winston

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without…

— Anonymous

The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed…

— Vanna Bonta

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of…

— James Weldon Johnson

I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an…

— Lara Fabian

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned…

— Erykah Badu

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next…

— Tom Stoppard

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the…

— David Cook

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want…

— Richard Fleeshman

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music,…

— Marcel Proust

The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who…

— Ike Turner

My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when…

— Christina Grimmie

I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish…

— Richie Havens

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

— Gavin DeGraw

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

— Maurice Gibb

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

— Bradley Joseph

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

— Bazzi

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or…

— Chesney Hawkes

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there?…

— Benny Carter

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

— Ian Axel

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

— Taylor Swift

I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

— Dianne Reeves

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend…

— Victor Borge

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

— Miranda Kerr

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I played piano growing up, had lessons and all that. I still try to touch up on that every once in a…

— Jrue Holiday