Piano Quotes · Page 5

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

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be…

— Keith Emerson

I've been scuffed up a little, but I just hope and pray that I keep my youthful looks for as long as…

— Cyrus Chestnut

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

— Maurizio Pollini

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and…

— Dannii Minogue

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

— Trent Reznor

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it…

— Edgar Winter

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could…

— Cristin Milioti

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart…

— Jack Kerouac

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

— Liza Minnelli

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

— Cloris Leachman

Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up…

— Jeff Goldblum

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical…

— Phillipa Soo

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet,…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Denny Laine

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my…

— Lapsley

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano…

— Beryl Markham

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around…

— Jackson Guthy

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer…

— Bo Burnham

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

— George Winston

“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,…

— Nathan Reese Maher