Piano Quotes · Page 9

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

— William Hague

Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if…

— Kygo

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of…

— Max Richter

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave…

— Oscar Peterson

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

— Santiago Calatrava

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in…

— Sam Abell

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano…

— Rohinton Mistry

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind…

— Robert Schumann

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and…

— FKA twigs

The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play…

— Ramin Djawadi

I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember…

— Borns

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept…

— Elle Varner

I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

— Dianne Reeves

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

— Mencius

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

— Eddie Van Halen

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one,…

— Jane Campion

I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a…

— Tyler Joseph

I started playing piano from a very young age, and I just loved it.

— Griff

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

— Victor Borge

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try…

— Yanni

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a…

— Jean-Michel Jarre