Piano Quotes · Page 17

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

— Dorothy Cannell

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

— Deborah Reber

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician…

— Marc Martel

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

— Ronald Harwood

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

— KT Tunstall

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you…

— Vonda Shepard

I'll have ideas in my head of what I want to say, but I need a beat to inspire me. So I…

— Lady Sovereign

I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and…

— Ramin Djawadi

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody…

— Billy Joel

In maybe third grade, I kept asking my parents for piano lessons, and eventually I got them. It turned out I wasn't…

— Alex G

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as…

— Gary Barlow

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

— Kygo

I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to…

— Mac Miller

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play…

— Jeremy Renner

My biggest influence was actually my mother's left hand. Because, before I went to bass, I was playing guitar. And when she…

— Larry Graham

The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the…

— Michael Sheen

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on…

— Serj Tankian

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right…

— Vijay Kumar

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.…

— Billy Joel

I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good…

— Ahmet Ertegun

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in…

— Tori Amos

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true…

— Beth Hart

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

— Anonymous

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and…

— George Polya

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

— Fritzie Zivic

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano,…

— Vanessa Carlton

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

— Julia Holter

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

— Billy Joel

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

— Bill Gates

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

— Chuck Mangione