Piano Quotes · Page 30

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

— Billy Joel

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

— Julia Holter

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano,…

— Vanessa Carlton

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

— Malcolm Gladwell

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

— Keith Jarrett

This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a…

— Joe Lovano

From the first album I'm playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of 'em, and drums,…

— J. J. Cale

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea…

— Grace Potter

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 mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish…

— Etta James

One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take…

— Gabriella Wilson

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a…

— Conrad Aiken

The moment I started learning to play the piano it changed my whole dynamic with music and with school. Suddenly I had…

— Santan Dave

“He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew all too well.…

— Alexandria Rhodes

Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a…

— Sviatoslav Richter

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and…

— Mike Shinoda

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They…

— Kate Furnivall

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural…

— Paul Fussell

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,…

— Gary Bartz

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead…

— Violeta Parra

I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way…

— Sarah Blasko

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

— Moss Hart

I played piano growing up, had lessons and all that. I still try to touch up on that every once in a…

— Jrue Holiday

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

— Chuck Mangione

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

— Bill Gates

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

— Luc Ferrari

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got…

— Paul Smith

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved…

— Marc Martel

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

— Pierre Danos

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

— Paul Rodgers

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

— Stephen Hough

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

— Orianthi

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

— Anthony Hopkins

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

— Olly Alexander

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want…

— Linda Ronstadt

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at…

— Vanessa Mae