Piano Quotes · Page 27

This happened to me last week. We're in the process of remodeling our house; we've been doing it for a while now.…

— Jeff Foxworthy

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 taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

— Jackson Browne

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

— Meg Rosoff

I play the piano.

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the…

— Nina Simone

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic…

— Rachel Kushner

I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers…

— Simon Helberg

The way it always starts with me making my music is I will never, ever start with the production first. It's always…

— Jonas Blue

Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand…

— Randall Jarrell

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules.…

— Renzo Piano

Remember the music is not in the piano.

— Clement Mok

Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that…

— Stewart D. Friedman

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

— Alfred Brendel

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

— William Hague

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but…

— Dave Brubeck

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to…

— David Luiz

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

— Zaytoven

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest…

— Billy Joel

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano…

— Sara Bareilles

When I play piano by myself and sing, something really special happens. I connect to something that I love.

— Maria Brink

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he…

— Mike Stoller

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I…

— Michael Hersch

My own sister has always been apparently more successful socially. I was much more the serious one. While she was out shopping…

— Geraldine James