Piano Quotes · Page 15

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

— Fritzie Zivic

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

— Ronald Harwood

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician…

— Marc Martel

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

— Deborah Reber

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come…

— Colin Hay

When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give…

— Mark Twain

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard…

— Charles Hazlewood

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock…

— Ronnie Milsap

I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that…

— Condoleezza Rice

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it…

— Robert Beverly Hale

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no…

— Pinetop Perkins

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the…

— Hugh Laurie

I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the…

— Anais Nin

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I…

— Ian Axel

In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other…

— Richard Wurmbrand

Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can…

— T. Harv Eker

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little…

— Brian Fallon

“Richard had sold Gillian's piano. He'd offered to ship it out to California, but neither Jess nor Emily played. Emily had quit…

— Allegra Goodman

I rented a small box room in a house in Brockley. It was so small you couldn't fit a single bed in…

— Lucy Beaumont

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

— KT Tunstall

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

— Charles Hazlewood

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

— Kristin Kreuk

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

— Dorothy Cannell

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

— Grace Potter

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.

— Adnan Sami

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

— GRiZ