Piano Quotes · Page 25

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

— Kiernan Shipka

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

— Vladimir Horowitz

Question...what's black with white ki's, not a grand piano man it's ****in' Pusha T!

— Pusha T (Clipse

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

— Hugh Laurie

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets…

— Brendon Urie

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

— Stephen Hough

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit,…

— Thomston

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

— Leon Russell

I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing…

— Jamie Cullum

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether…

— Alanis Morissette

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic…

— Agnes Obel

My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then,…

— David Bryan

I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a…

— Trevor Rabin

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act /…

— Julia Cameron

Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who…

— Pat Ament

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no…

— Maximilian Schell

If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody…

— Eric Benet

As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled…

— Richard Clayderman

My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing."…

— Ester Dean

In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in…

— Sam Abell

I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is…

— Hephzibah Menuhin

So many people have gone to music production schools for years and years, and they've wanted this their whole entire life, and…

— Lapsley

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano.…

— Wes Montgomery

I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got…

— Elton John

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

— Chris Cornell

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

— Mariska Hargitay

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

— Mike Dean

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move…

— Alan Lightman

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it

— Vanessa Carlton

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts,…

— Zach Braff

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

— Robert Gottlieb

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

— Lady Gaga

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

— William Hague

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10,…

— Lukas Haas

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on…

— Guy Picciotto

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major…

— Brendon Urie

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

— Rufus Wainwright