Piano Quotes · Page 21

I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV.

— Tituss Burgess

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

— Paul Shaffer

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

— Jeff Lynne

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

— Eddie Izzard

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the…

— Drake Bell

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the…

— Rebecca West

In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life,…

— Lzzy Hale

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet,…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's…

— Steven Wilson

I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You…

— Nina Simone

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went…

— Holliday Grainger

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization…

— John Cage

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then…

— Miles Teller

The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano…

— El DeBarge

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other…

— Frank Schoonmaker

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.…

— Ringo Starr

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all…

— Lapsley

I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart…

— Charles Bukowski

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano…

— Beryl Markham

When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave…

— Condoleezza Rice

The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the…

— Frankie Cosmos

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of…

— Oscar Peterson

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

— Samuel Barber

I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.

— Sara Bareilles

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

— Margot Asquith

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

— Mike Figgis

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

— Robert Quine

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

— Billy Eckstine

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

— Warren Zevon

Life is like a piano, there are black and white and you have to play both to have a beautiful melody!

— Anonymous

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

— Trent Reznor

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

— Chirlane McCray

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

— Caroline Corr

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

— Al Capp

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

— Billie Eilish

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

— Tom Odell

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

— Mike Shinoda