Piano Quotes · Page 16

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

— Andrew W.K

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she…

— Katy B

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and…

— Ludovico Einaudi

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

— Sriram Raghavan

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

— Aimee Osbourne

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

— Geoff Downes

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

— Leo Kottke

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

— Masi Oka

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he…

— Dave Davies

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and…

— Elton John

I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian…

— Vincenzo Nibali

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me,…

— Brian McKnight

I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look…

— Zaytoven

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a…

— Leslie Bricusse

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want…

— Zakk Wylde

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more…

— Kenny Smith

Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part…

— Mark Ronson

In my spare time, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff.…

— Evan Peters

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an…

— Linda Lavin

I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training…

— Jade Hassoune

And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and…

— Anna Quindlen

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era,…

— Jane Campion

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

— Beth Phoenix

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put…

— Elizabeth Fraser

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

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

— Denny Laine

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

— Stana Katic

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

— Grace Potter

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.

— Adnan Sami

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

— Charles Hazlewood

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

— Kristin Kreuk