Piano Quotes · Page 25

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

— James Murphy

The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

— Maria Cristina Mena

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

— Kenneth Tynan

Every day, I start with a workout; I do vocal lessons, I do piano lessons.

— Selena Gomez

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the…

— Roberta Flack

We are not really skilled musicians. I mean, I can play a little bit of guitar. Thomas can play piano.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

— Gyorgy Ligeti

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

— Robert Schumann

When John said that he wanted me to play with him on piano, I told him that there were many others who…

— Alice Coltrane

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one…

— Max Tundra

My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me…

— Colin Donnell

One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope…

— Rufus Wainwright

My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got…

— Willie Nelson

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's…

— I. M. Pei

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's…

— John Stamos

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline,…

— Geddy Lee

When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it…

— Louis Sachar

“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball,…

— Ally Carter

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so…

— Mark Salling

A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano…

— Ottorino Respighi

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing…

— Henry Hazlitt

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this…

— Robert Pattinson

I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with…

— Tom Scholz

“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”

— Marisha Pessl

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one…

— Freya Ridings

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

“Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the back of…

— Carlos Hernández

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

— Dizzy Gillespie

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something…

— Meg Rosoff

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

— Judith Durham

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

— Britt Daniel

“To me, life is sad, like a piano with no pedals being played by a person with no fingers.
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— Jarod Kintz

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

— Scott Disick

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

— Michel Legrand

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

— Leon Russell

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

— Ramin Djawadi

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

— Woody Allen