Piano Quotes · Page 26

I would love to perform in an Amangiri hotel somewhere. Just off to the side like a piano man, while people drink…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

— Janel Parrish

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.

— Yoochun

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

— Richard Marx

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

— Marian McPartland

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your…

— Zeena Parkins

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

— Anonymous

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio…

— Ronnie Milsap

I never went out to make the music that people would like. I mean, I tried, because every teenager tries to do…

— Freya Ridings

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get…

— Alan Carr

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or…

— Madonna Ciccone

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil…

— Jools Holland

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen…

— Philip Pullman

As a musician or composer, whenever I am recording a song I imagine myself sitting beside my piano and singing the song…

— Ankit Tiwari

Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting…

— Phil Cousineau

Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very…

— Livingston Taylor

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For…

— Steve Kazee

Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that…

— Stewart D. Friedman

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved…

— Jack Garratt

It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or…

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs.…

— El DeBarge

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to…

— Julian Cope

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

— Jens Lekman

Only movement I've ever been involved in is when I push the piano across the stage.

— Fats Domino

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

— Ray Charles

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

— Jeanine Tesori

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

— Gerry Mulligan

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

— Anonymous

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

— Nat King Cole

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

— Christian McKay

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

— Victor Borge

I can kind of play the piano and I've got a drum kit which I've been meaning to learn. And I am…

— Rhod Gilbert

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

— Pete Seeger

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

— Mabel Cheung

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

— Bill Bruford

I consider myself a part-time worker when it comes to the piano, but you need to play regularly to stay sharp.

— Joe Hisaishi