“When we see a broken piano, we still press its keys to see if it is playing, and this is called hope!… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats… — Jerry Wexler Copy Share Image
It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the flute was in its simplicity, in its resemblance to the human voice. It always sounded clear. It sounded… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata. She buries her failure in this, as… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Music has influenced everything from my tattooing to how I talk to how I walk, I guess. I was classically trained in… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing… — Phil Douglas Copy Share Image
I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I remember writing really simple songs on the piano when I was really young. Looking back, I'd play a lot of two-note… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
As a little kid, I'd put on shows for my family. I would sing songs and play piano. I thought while growing… — Amber Stevens Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry.… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I… — Mabel Copy Share Image
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
![“I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be nice to be okay at the guitar or at the piano, a reasonable cook, perhaps able to fix your car or do some basic carpentry, and be able to write the odd article. Rather than being…” quote by Tom Hodgkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/544/tom-hodgkinson-2852_able_i-like-the-idea-of-becoming-fairly-good_348980.jpg)
