Piano Quotes · Page 19

“A zebra is the piano of the animal kingdom. And I am the flute at the nudist colony, if you know what…

— Jarod Kintz

“love is like the piano there are black and white and must play both for a beautiful melody.”

— khaled naili

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

— David Bryan

I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it…

— Amy Sherald

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

— Conor Maynard

At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I…

— Lizz Wright

Love is like playing the piano. First, you have to play by the rule. Then you have to forget the rule and…

— Anonymous

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on…

— PJ Harvey

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,…

— Richard Coles

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is…

— Theodore E. Steinway

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me…

— Chris Cornell

I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught…

— Kerris Dorsey

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other…

— Cy Coleman

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old.…

— Ashnikko

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a…

— Debbie Gibson

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural…

— Paul Fussell

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead…

— Violeta Parra

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,…

— Gary Bartz

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and…

— Mike Shinoda

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They…

— Kate Furnivall

As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album,…

— Andrew Hollander

“He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew all too well.…

— Alexandria Rhodes

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and…

— Laura Mvula

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

— Charlotte Caffey

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

— Steve Toltz

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

— Keith Richards

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

— Caroline Corr

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

— Artur Schnabel

“I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.”

— E. Lockhart

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

— Billy Taylor

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

— Stana Katic

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

— Miguel Sapochnik

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

— Warren Zevon

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

— Victor Borge

“We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.”

— Chris Lynch

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time,…

— Katie Cassidy

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

— Luc Ferrari