Piano Quotes · Page 27

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

— Frank Sinatra

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

— Warren Zevon

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in…

— Ed Helms

Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.

— Lemmy

I enrolled my daughter for piano lessons, but she quit after just two lessons, citing a lack of interest.

— Zhao Wei

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

— Simon Rattle

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

— Santiago Calatrava

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm…

— Ramin Djawadi

I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember…

— Borns

I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano.…

— Melvin Van Peebles

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices:…

— Vladimir Horowitz

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated…

— Pauline Oliveros

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A…

— D. H. Lawrence

Oscar Peterson's 'Hymn to Freedom' is the first song I ever lifted on the piano. I learned it note-for-note and it's still…

— JP Saxe

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the…

— Massimo Vignelli

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there…

— Mick Jagger

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete…

— Jess Walter

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my…

— Billy Joel

I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my…

— Condoleezza Rice

“Even if many really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even…

— Dostoevsky

Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that.…

— Will Smith

There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play…

— Maria Shriver

The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they…

— Michelle Obama

“I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets.” - piano teacher…

— Anna Goldsworthy

I have not learnt music at all. So actually I want to learn something - learn how to play a piano, maybe,…

— KK

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

— Eleanor Farjeon

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I…

— Barry Mann

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by…

— Stephen Sondheim

“People aren't pianos. You don't hit a certain note and know what you're going to get.”

— Gwendolyn Heasley

On the piano, I cover all styles. I turn to it for inspiration in sport, and whenever I need my rest.

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

— Vladimir Ashkenazy

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

— Brooke Hogan

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

— David Mamet

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

— Billy Sunday

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

— Marilyn Monroe

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very…

— Shook

“Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.”

— Esi Edugyan