Piano Quotes · Page 31

Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a…

— David Steward

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

— Elton John

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.

— Kygo

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

— Anonymous

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

— Lari White

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

— Harry S Truman

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music…

— Matthew Sweet

Once I meet the piano, I have no other choice, because I need to have a good date right! So I am…

— Hiromi

I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of…

— Danielle Bradbery

I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about…

— Jason Robert Brown

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on…

— Sarah Zettel

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of…

— David Lanz

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was…

— Gordon Getty

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and…

— Paolo Nutini

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one…

— Barbara Johnson

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give…

— Joseph Haydn

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday)…

— Michelle Herman

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and…

— Russell Targ

“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was…

— C. JoyBell C

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown…

— Dr. John

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

— Hugh Jackman

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

— Jim Parsons

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

— Rashida Jones

My favorite moment in our In This Moment set is when I go out by myself to play a song on the…

— Maria Brink

“golden and worn, the dingy color of mustard powder. A piano sat off to the side, with photographs”

— Melissa Foster

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

— Ben Folds

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and…

— Carole King

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

— John Legend

Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at…

— Gabriella Wilson

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

— Christopher Cross

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.

— Sigrid

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

— Ryan Eggold

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

— Christian McKay

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or…

— Dua Lipa