Piano Quotes · Page 18

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

— Moss Hart

I played piano growing up, had lessons and all that. I still try to touch up on that every once in a…

— Jrue Holiday

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

— Keith Jarrett

Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at…

— Vanessa Mae

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a…

— David Steward

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

— Olly Alexander

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things…

— Maira Kalman

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But…

— Birdy

I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on…

— Eva Green

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying…

— Nat Wolff

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own…

— Nina Simone

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and…

— Jillian Hervey

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother…

— Coy Bowles

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I…

— Paula Cole

Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand…

— Randall Jarrell

Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists… Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I…

— Richard Clayderman

After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went…

— Billy Wilder

Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I…

— Shook

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's…

— Stephen Hough

I was at one of the Krays' clubs, El Morocco. I was singing with Dudley Moore on the piano. Then Ronnie said,…

— David Essex

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want…

— Linda Ronstadt

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

— Orianthi

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

— Stephen Hough

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

— Anthony Hopkins

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

— Luc Ferrari

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

— Pierre Danos

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

— Paul Rodgers

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved…

— Marc Martel

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got…

— Paul Smith

My favorite moment in our In This Moment set is when I go out by myself to play a song on the…

— Maria Brink

“golden and worn, the dingy color of mustard powder. A piano sat off to the side, with photographs”

— Melissa Foster

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

— Hugh Jackman

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

— Jim Parsons

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

— Rashida Jones

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

— Harry S Truman