Piano Quotes · Page 55

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

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to…

— Eddie Van Halen

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I played the violin from a very young age but would love to be able to sit down in a bar at…

— Cathy Newman

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

— Jessi Colter

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today…

— Tom Scholz

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

— Jacqueline Emerson

I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano.…

— Melvin Van Peebles

“At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano, a beautiful old 1894 Bechstein concert grand that…

— Oliver Sacks

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up…

— Jim Capaldi

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that…

— Freya Ridings

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone.…

— Cherry Jones

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain…

— Chick Corea

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or…

— Madonna Ciccone

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so…

— Reggie Watts

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

— Michala Petri

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as…

— James Thurber

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

— Billy Sunday

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

— Leon Russell

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano.…

— Wes Montgomery