Piano Quotes · Page 23

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

— Cecil Taylor

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

— Andrea Bocelli

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

— Ben Gibbard

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the…

— Kelsey Grammer

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the…

— Anthony Kiedis

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like,…

— Allison Janney

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I…

— Cary Fowler

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,…

— Oscar Peterson

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored.…

— Lesley Nicol

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a…

— Mark Knopfler

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my…

— Terence Lewis

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as…

— Justin Guarini

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn…

— Jennifer Estep

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or…

— Robert Pinsky

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer…

— Henri Poincare

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was…

— Dr. John

“I could see us sitting at the old piano, while he tried to explain how music worked. I could see the Iron…

— Julie Kagawa

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but…

— Joshua L. Liebman

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a…

— Paul Strand

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he…

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

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

— Alan Greenspan

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr

“It has no piano part,” Honoria reminded her. “I have no objection,” Sarah said quickly. From behind the piano.”

— Julia Quinn

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

— Matt Damon

I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.

— Henry Mancini

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

— Travis Barker

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved…

— Jools Holland

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.”

— Claire Legrand

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

— Sandra Bullock

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

— Joanna Newsom

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands…

— Angela Carter

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

— Sara Bareilles

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them…

— Jerry Lee Lewis