Piano Quotes · Page 22

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

— Gary Oldman

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

— Thelonious Monk

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

— Joseph Parker

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

— Alicia Witt

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

— Eric Roth

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

— David Levithan

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip…

— Liberace

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing…

— Elton John

“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone.…

— Cherry Jones

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged…

— Kamasi Washington

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what…

— Elle Fanning

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing…

— William Singe

I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody…

— Liam Howlett

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better…

— Hugh Laurie

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie…

— Amy Chua

Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend…

— Tony MacAlpine

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it…

— Lights

Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And…

— Craig Robinson

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if…

— Caio Fonseca

It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing…

— David Gilmour

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs…

— John C. Reilly

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

— Rian Johnson

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

— Jack Black

The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play…

— Ramin Djawadi

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

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

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Keith Richards

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

— Steve Toltz

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

— Caroline Corr

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