Piano Quotes · Page 20

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend…

— Victor Borge

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

— Dianne Reeves

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

— Miranda Kerr

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

— Ian Axel

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

— Taylor Swift

I always liked performing. I learnt to sing, play the piano and dance. I was good at academics too but I was…

— Catherine Tresa

Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on…

— Robert Glasper

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I…

— Kip Winger

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so…

— Jools Holland

“Monroe started to play again. The piano was warming up, the keys firm beneath his fingertips, the pedals amplifying or dampening, the…

— Beatrice Colin

Women would rather go to their daughter's piano recital than stay all night at work, working on a proposal, because they're less…

— Gavin McInnes

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock…

— Beth Hart

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so…

— Zaytoven

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are…

— Anonymous

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

— James Thurber

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the…

— Eckhart Tolle

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees,…

— George Orwell

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on…

— Sandra Steingraber

I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet,…

— Ted Kooser

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in…

— Miranda Leek

The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there?…

— Benny Carter

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

— Gavin DeGraw

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

— Bradley Joseph

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

— Maurice Gibb

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

— Joel Grey

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most…

— Carter Burwell

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

— Kiana Tom

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

— Elton John

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

— Billy Joel

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear…

— Richie Havens

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

— McCoy Tyner

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

— Glenn Gould

“By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.”

— Jasper Rees