Piano Quotes · Page 20

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

— Harold Budd

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

— Frank Sinatra

Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

— Andrea Gibson

Piano is like drudgery.

— Warren Zevon

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off…

— Beck

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

— Deborah Reber

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear…

— Richie Havens

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

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

— Noah Cyrus

I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a…

— Trevor Rabin

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

— Elle Fanning

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I play any piano with a good tune.

— Pinetop Perkins

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

— Alan Greenspan

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

— Robbie Jones

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

— Ben Gibbard

Once I meet the piano, I have no other choice, because I need to have a good date right! So I am…

— Hiromi

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the…

— Kamasi Washington

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player…

— Benmont Tench

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

— Steve Toltz

I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell…

— Laura Benanti

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would…

— Chris Cornell

To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges…

— George Li

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

— Herbert A. Simon

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

— Thelonious Monk