Piano Quotes · Page 32

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

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

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

— Neville Marriner

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

— Elton John

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

— Kiana Tom

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She…

— Anonymous

“When we see a broken piano, we still press its keys to see if it is playing, and this is called hope!…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard…

— Esperanza Spalding

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor…

— James Young

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing…

— Bradley Walsh

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet…

— Luc Ferrari

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's…

— Milan Kundera

He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats…

— Jerry Wexler

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano…

— Sara Bareilles

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock…

— Matt Skiba

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one…

— Barbara Johnson

I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way…

— Sarah Blasko

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give…

— Joseph Haydn

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday)…

— Michelle Herman

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Carter Burwell

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

— Barbi Benton

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

— Christopher Cross

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and…

— Carole King

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

— Ben Folds

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

— John Legend

Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at…

— Gabriella Wilson

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.

— Sigrid

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

— Ryan Eggold

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

— Christian McKay

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

— Michala Petri

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or…

— Dua Lipa