Piano Quotes · Page 29

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

— Deborah Reber

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

— Ronald Harwood

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

— Fritzie Zivic

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

A lot of people have said, 'Do a Westworld tour!' I definitely have ideas, because we could do a whole concert from…

— Ramin Djawadi

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis…

— Pat Ament

A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is…

— Charles Petzold

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with…

— Toni Tennille

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning.…

— Caroline Corr

I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get…

— Philip Glass

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's…

— John Stamos

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline,…

— Geddy Lee

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They…

— Kate Furnivall

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural…

— Paul Fussell

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,…

— Gary Bartz

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead…

— Violeta Parra

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…

— Virginia Woolf

“At home I have a blue piano. But I can’t play a note. It’s been in the shadow of the cellar door…

— Else Lasker-Schuler

The only thing I could do was play music, because I'd studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in…

— Demis Roussos

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when…

— Natalia Tena

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true…

— Beth Hart

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and…

— George Polya

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

— Anonymous

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.

— Adnan Sami

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

— Grace Potter

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

— Dorothy Cannell

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

— Charles Hazlewood

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

— Kristin Kreuk

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster