Piano Quotes · Page 5

Life is like a piano. What you get depends on how you play it.

— Chinier Bennett

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

— Milton H. Erickson

My muse has always been the piano.

— David Bryan

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

— Maximilian Schell

“You don't have to be brave for me.”

— Josie Riviera

I play piano, a little Gershwin, before debates.

— Michelle Wu

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

— Nina Simone

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

— Maurizio Pollini

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

— Steve Lacy

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

— Reggie Watts

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend…

— Penn Jillette

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

— Aimee Mann

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

— Barbara Ann Scott

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.

— Rita Rudner

I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.

— Benjamin Clementine

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's…

— Russell Sherman

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after…

— Charles M. Schwab

I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx]…

— Quentin Tarantino

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano…

— Mary Lou Williams

Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to…

— Lenny Breau

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways,…

— David McCullough

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the…

— Chuck Brown

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie -…

— Slowthai

Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really…

— Eldar Djangirov

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the…

— Quincy Jones

I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way…

— Elle Fanning

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill…

— Anonymous

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked…

— Sirena Huang

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven…

— Brian Eno

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and…

— Rosanne Cash

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

— Brian Wilson

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

— Mencius

When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.

— Kygo

Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.

— Andrea Gibson

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

— Delta Goodrem

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

— Alex Horne

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

— Joseph Parker

Whenever I see a piano, I just play on it.

— Lil Mosey