Piano Quotes · Page 18

My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.

— Zico

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time…

— Anonymous

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

— Caroline Corr

“What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?” “A piano.” “Simon.”

— Cassandra Clare

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

— Fiona Shaw

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

— Mose Allison

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

— John Cage

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute…

— Farah Khan

My own sister has always been apparently more successful socially. I was much more the serious one. While she was out shopping…

— Geraldine James

There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this,…

— Amber Rubarth

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the…

— Lynne Truss

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm…

— Alex Ferguson

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons…

— Tobe Hooper

I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to…

— Sarah Weinman

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer…

— Bo Burnham

I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish…

— Richie Havens

My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when…

— Christina Grimmie

The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who…

— Ike Turner

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music,…

— Marcel Proust

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want…

— Richard Fleeshman

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next…

— Tom Stoppard

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the…

— David Cook

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned…

— Erykah Badu

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and…

— Lisa Stansfield

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

— Christopher Miller

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

— Ani DiFranco

“It has no piano part,” Honoria reminded her. “I have no objection,” Sarah said quickly. From behind the piano.”

— Julia Quinn

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

— Matt Damon

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

— Travis Barker

I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.

— Henry Mancini

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

— Ben Gibbard

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the…

— Kelsey Grammer

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the…

— Anthony Kiedis

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like,…

— Allison Janney

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

— Alan Greenspan

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

— Cecil Taylor

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

— Andrea Bocelli