Piano Quotes · Page 11

“you can run out of garlic, you can't really run out of music”

— Jace Wayland

“I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he?”

— Jai Clare

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

— Arthur Rubinstein

I always had a piano. All of them sound good to me.

— Fats Domino

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

— Carl Andre

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

— Colin Greenwood

In school I had piano lessons as a child for about two years.

— Melody Gardot

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

— Marsha Norman

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put…

— Elizabeth Fraser

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

— Joseph Parker

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

— Frederic Chopin

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

— Zaytoven

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in…

— Laurie Graham

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of…

— Chaim Potok

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here…

— Charles Phillips

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the…

— Jonathan Tropper

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours,…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good…

— Fiona Apple

I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of…

— Esperanza Spalding

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly…

— Marian McPartland

I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or…

— Patrick Watson

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,…

— Caleb Landry Jones

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to…

— Holly Hunter

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself…

— Matthew James Thomas

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

— Gordon Raphael

I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

— Alfred Brendel

The piano has been drinking, not me.

— Tom Waits

I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.

— Sara Bareilles

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

— Dennis Wilson

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

— Thelonious Monk

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

— Gordon Lightfoot

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

— Dick Dale

The piano is an orchestra with 88… things, you know

— Vladimir Horowitz