Piano Quotes · Page 29

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

— Oscar Wilde

My daughter does sewing, needlepoint and very good drawings. My son plays the piano.

— David Linley

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

— Victor Borge

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and…

— Ella Henderson

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel

— Gavin DeGraw

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

— Sam Hunt

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

— Wynton Marsalis

'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and…

— Petra Haden

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play…

— Nina Simone

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I…

— Ricky Martin

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've been playing piano since I was 5, and started writing when I was 6 or 7. It was never a revelation…

— Mark Salling

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice.…

— Judy Collins

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a…

— Debbie Gibson

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me…

— Chris Cornell

Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get…

— Jackie DeShannon

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,…

— David Mitchell

I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in…

— Tom Odell

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible…

— Dirk Benedict

I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way…

— Wolfgang Langewiesche

I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in…

— Philip Glass

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was…

— Holly Hunter

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

— Mao Zedong

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

— Flannery O'Connor

When I'm by myself and get some quiet - when the kids are doing something else - I spend time playing piano.

— Michelle Wu

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

— George Bernard Shaw

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

— Robin Weigert

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

— Stephen Hough

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

— Victoria Legrand

I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.

— Eric Garcetti

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.

— Henry Ward Beecher

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way…

— John Legend

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

— Jessi Colter

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

— Evgeni Kostitsyn

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

— Jude Law