Piano Quotes · Page 53

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

— Ani DiFranco

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

“I beg your pardon again. Do you believe yourself to be a pianoforte?" - Magnus Bane, The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles,…

— Cassandra Clare

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful…

— Ashley Judd

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

— Artur Schnabel

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

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and…

— David Hyde Pierce

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

— Frederic Chopin

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no…

— Maximilian Schell

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I…

— Barry Mann

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip…

— Liberace

Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can…

— Roy Hargrove

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out…

— Alicia Witt

I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very…

— Marjoe Gortner

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

— Christopher Cross

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I…

— Kip Winger

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

— James Levine

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most…

— Carter Burwell

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For…

— Steve Kazee

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

— Masi Oka

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying…

— Steven Price

I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the…

— Ellen Hollman