Piano Quotes · Page 28

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

— Steve Lacy

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend…

— Penn Jillette

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

— Reggie Watts

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

— Andrew W.K

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

— Joseph Parker

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

— Frederic Chopin

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and -…

— Harry Connick, Jr

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore…

— Eric San

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player…

— Benmont Tench

The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar…

— Hiromi

I couldn't sleep one night, and I didn't know what to do, so I came downstairs and started playing the piano. That's…

— Benson Boone

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a…

— August Wilson

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full…

— Anthony Hopkins

I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get…

— Jamie Cullum

I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was…

— Barbara Harbach

The only thing I could do was play music, because I'd studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in…

— Demis Roussos

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when…

— Natalia Tena

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out…

— Gary Hamel

I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear.…

— Benjamin Clementine

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .…

— Herbie Hancock

I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the…

— Bill Crow

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

— Zaytoven

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in…

— Laurie Graham

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

— Stana Katic

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

— Denny Laine

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

— Declan Donnelly

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put…

— Elizabeth Fraser

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

— Leo Kottke

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

— Geoff Downes

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

— Beth Phoenix

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

— Masi Oka

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she…

— Katy B

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

— Sriram Raghavan

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.

— Adnan Sami

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

— Gyorgy Ligeti