Piano Quotes · Page 20

I started writing and playing piano age 12, releasing at 18 and have been pretty prolific with my output since.

— Lola Young

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

— Richard McCabe

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

— Francine Pascal

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

— Oscar Peterson

There are therapeutic benefits to songwriting. Whenever I'm feeling upset, I go to the piano. I go to the piano before I…

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the…

— Andrae Crouch

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one…

— Anton Chekhov

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

— Tim Curry

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it…

— Edgar Winter

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano.…

— Jose Mourinho

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my…

— Lesley Gore

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his…

— Paul Gilbert

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project,…

— Barry Manilow

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because…

— Jessie Buckley

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had…

— Quentin Bryce

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed…

— John McLaughlin

There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a…

— C418

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at…

— Trey Parker

“~Dance~ My fingers dance On the set Of ivory & black pirouettes. I let go While my fingers fly, Making music through…

— Rachel Nicole Wagner

Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If…

— Marketa Irglova

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled…

— Gail Zappa

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes…

— Jack Kornfield

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to…

— Brendon Urie

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

— Yefim Bronfman

I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get…

— Michael Feinstein

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

— Anonymous

The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of…

— Beth Hart

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

— Robert Glasper

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

— Boris Johnson

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

— Liza Minnelli

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

— Noah Cyrus

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

— Miranda Leek

“I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.”

— Thad Carhart

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

— Cecil Taylor

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely…

— Victoria Legrand

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind…

— Alain Ducasse

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony

— Lucy 'Aisy

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

— Ronnie Milsap