Piano Quotes · Page 22

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to…

— Eddie Van Halen

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

— Freya Ridings

“I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a…

— Agnes Obel

Since around 6 or 7, I've been taking classes in piano, guitar, music theory.

— Skip Marley

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to…

— David Luiz

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a…

— Steven Wright

Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci,…

— Zaytoven

I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for…

— Taylor Hawkins

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an…

— Mike Shinoda

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and…

— Stephen Holden

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano…

— Jamie Cullum

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build…

— Nayvadius Cash

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just…

— Nadia Ali

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any…

— Dhanush

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body.…

— Paulo Coelho

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets…

— Michael Weatherly

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I…

— Bonnie Raitt

“When I was thirteen I spent a lot of time pretending to like dance music because everyone at my school seemed to…

— Alexa Chung

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but…

— James Vincent McMorrow

Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried…

— Trent Reznor

My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So,…

— Cyrus Chestnut

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

— Elton John

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

— Michael Levine

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

— Tina Maze

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

— Gary Oldman

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

— Chris Isaak

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

— Kate Bush

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

— Jacqueline Emerson

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

— Lady Gaga

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

— Tom Lehrer

I can play piano by ear, and some guitar. But I definitely havent mastered either instrument. I do it for fun as…

— Ashley Tisdale

Anywhere I could sing or play - I learned to play piano early on - I would, so charity gigs, church, the…

— Raye

I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my…

— Yanni

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

— Eddie Van Halen

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant…

— Benjamin Clementine

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really…

— Kygo

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

— Andrew W.K