Piano Quotes · Page 31

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

— Jim Parsons

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

— Julia Holter

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

— Billy Joel

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

— Malcolm Gladwell

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano,…

— Vanessa Carlton

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in…

— Jack Bruce

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and…

— FKA twigs

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and…

— Jane Seymour

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me…

— James Blunt

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But…

— Birdy

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater…

— Audra McDonald

I often wonder why girls who do get into music tend to be just singers, or else play the piano. And if…

— Ellie Rowsell

Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber, and he'd rumble around…

— Johnny Mathis

I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if…

— Colin Farrell

We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process…

— Richard Sherman

We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and…

— Russell Targ

“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was…

— C. JoyBell C

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown…

— Dr. John

On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I feel very lucky, and the work that I do doesn't depend on much. If your vision's still good, and your hands…

— John Williams

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with…

— Ray Brown

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

— Moss Hart

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

— Jrue Holiday

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

— Keith Jarrett

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

— Bill Gates

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

— Chuck Mangione

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

— Gavin DeGraw

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

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

— Bradley Joseph

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

— Maurice Gibb

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

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

— Miranda Kerr

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

— M. Jayachandran

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

— Wassily Kandinsky