Piano Quotes · Page 28

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

— Bryan Ferry

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

— John Mayall

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

— George Duke

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

— Chris Daughtry

I've always wanted to walk into a hotel, sit at a piano and play 'Piano Man.'

— Bill Cowher

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot…

— Ben Lovett

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a…

— James McGreevey

When I'm going through something really difficult, I think it's what made me go to the piano for the first time when…

— Beth Hart

From my childhood, I never wanted to do anything else but create music. From my first piano to setting up my studio,…

— Anirudh Ravichander

I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It's such an essential part of what I do in…

— Kygo

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also…

— Caroline Corr

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I…

— Irina Shayk

You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing.…

— Bruce Forsyth

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought…

— George Carlin

You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the…

— Sándor Márai

“At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano, a beautiful old 1894 Bechstein concert grand that…

— Oliver Sacks

My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I…

— Johnny Griffin

"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their…

— Paul Fussell

“Each piano is unique. Each feels different beneath your hand and yields a new geography of sound. Each room or hall accepts…

— A. Manette Ansay

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she…

— Nat Hentoff

Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of…

— Alexa Ray Joel

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle…

— Martin Filler

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

— Joan Armatrading

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man…

— Anonymous

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the…

— Rebecca West

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

— Edith Sitwell

I can't play guitar or piano. I can't even play dumb to get through TSA in the airport.

— Saint Jhn

When I play piano by myself and sing, something really special happens. I connect to something that I love.

— Maria Brink

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

— Peter Lawford

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

— Borns

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can…

— Debby Boone

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano…

— Sofia Vassilieva

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

— Justin Cartwright

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

— AraabMuzik

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

— Alicia Keys

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

— Krystian Zimerman