Piano Quotes · Page 29

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

— Grace Potter

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

— Dorothy Cannell

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

— Charles Hazlewood

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make…

— Artur Schnabel

Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or…

— Ella Henderson

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me,…

— Ryan Adams

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to…

— Ludovico Einaudi

My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on…

— Omarion

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is…

— Glenn Gould

My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how…

— Ethan Slater

I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness…

— SonReal

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like…

— Tom Hiddleston

Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He…

— Angela Bowie

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here…

— Daniel Keyes

“Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really -…

— Anonymous

If you're really careful to keep the monitors not too loud, if you're lucky, you get a little bit of nice bleed…

— Mike Campbell

As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album,…

— Andrew Hollander

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and…

— Laura Mvula

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

— Kristin Kreuk

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

— KT Tunstall

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

— Ronald Harwood

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician…

— Marc Martel

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

— Deborah Reber

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

— Fritzie Zivic

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and…

— George Polya

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

— Anonymous

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true…

— Beth Hart