Piano Quotes · Page 30

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

— Stephen Hough

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

— Orianthi

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

— Anthony Hopkins

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

— Luc Ferrari

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved…

— Marc Martel

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got…

— Paul Smith

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

— Paul Rodgers

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

— Pierre Danos

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play…

— Pablo Casals

I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It…

— Washed Out

Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So…

— Johann Johannsson

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the…

— Duke Ellington

I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing…

— Dan Hill

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel,…

— Gordon Getty

All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple…

— Sam Haskins

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over…

— Sara Bareilles

I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was…

— Barbara Harbach

I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear.…

— Benjamin Clementine

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out…

— Gary Hamel

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the…

— Bill Crow

Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .…

— Herbie Hancock

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at…

— Vanessa Mae

Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a…

— David Steward

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want…

— Linda Ronstadt

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

— Olly Alexander

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

— Anonymous

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

— Harry S Truman

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

— Lari White

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

— Elton John

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.

— Kygo

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

My favorite moment in our In This Moment set is when I go out by myself to play a song on the…

— Maria Brink

“golden and worn, the dingy color of mustard powder. A piano sat off to the side, with photographs”

— Melissa Foster

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

— Hugh Jackman

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

— Rashida Jones

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon