Piano Quotes · Page 24

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

— Keith Richards

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

— Caio Fonseca

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

— Antje Traue

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I…

— Steve Young

My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all…

— Park Bo-gum

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

— Glenn Gould

To me, a day off is sitting at a piano or with a guitar and writing.

— Rick Nielsen

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano

— Clark Gable

I went to an all-girls school where most people played the piano or the violin, so I didn't really know anyone who…

— Ellie Rowsell

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules.…

— Renzo Piano

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into…

— Emeli Sande

When we were trying to make a go of our music, our parents bought everything they could afford for us. We had…

— Richard Carpenter

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the…

— Kamasi Washington

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child,…

— Danica McKellar

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs…

— Page McConnell

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but…

— Robert Christgau

If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind…

— Zakk Wylde

“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences…

— Andrew W.K

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start…

— Adam Johnson

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is…

— Aaron Copland

I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any…

— Melody Gardot

We're in a digital age where it's cool to be on your iPhone all the time. All of out-of-school activities my daughter…

— Ludacris

“A truly great piano is one that enables you to convey deep emotion”

— Sviatoslav Richter

Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

— Andrea Gibson

Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the…

— Julian Bream

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes…

— Jamie Foxx

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

— Matthieu Ricard

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

— Sigrid

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play…

— Ray Charles

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere…

— Paul McCartney

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

— Woody Allen

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

— Gavin DeGraw

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

— Alicia Keys

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was…

— Mabel

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing…

— Beth Hart

I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

— McCoy Tyner

“Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich