I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just…

I played piano for about 12 years.

— Hardwell

“If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll…

— Dean Koontz

To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts…

— Russell Sherman

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music…

— Nayvadius Cash

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

— Eddie Van Halen

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in…

— Elvis Costello

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

— Eddie Van Halen

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any…

— David Foster

Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous…

— Mary Pilon

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus…

— Anonymous

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

— Brian Eno

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old…

— Beryl Markham

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write…

— Luc Ferrari

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

— Nils Frahm