Piano Quotes · Page 30

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

— Joseph Addison

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

— Nicholas Haslam

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

— Abigail Washburn

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

— Bobby McFerrin

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

— Tori Amos

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can…

— Anonymous

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but…

— Thomas Carlyle

“When it was for you," he said, his voice soft. "I enjoyed playing the piano when it was for you.”

— Julie Murphy-Side Effects May Vary

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other…

— Cy Coleman

I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught…

— Kerris Dorsey

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old.…

— Ashnikko

I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with…

— Seungri

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain…

— Chick Corea

I just write a little bit on piano. I'm not by any stretch of the means even a good piano player. I…

— Lorrie Morgan

My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like…

— Ryo Kawasaki

There was always a piano around the house and I've got other brothers and sisters but I'm the youngest, and none of…

— Ella Henderson

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not…

— Henry David Thoreau

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I…

— Ian Axel

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz…

— Larry Coryell

I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause…

— Francis Dunnery

Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained…

— Rick Riordan

[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something…

— Regina Spektor

I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of…

— Tom Verlaine

Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

“Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.”

— David Eagleman

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on…

— Borns

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

— Martin Gore

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

— Van Cliburn

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

— Eric Lewis

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear…

— Michel Legrand

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

— Sheri L. Dew

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

— Francine Pascal

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

— Oscar Peterson

I started writing and playing piano age 12, releasing at 18 and have been pretty prolific with my output since.

— Lola Young

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

— Richard McCabe

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

— Christian Louboutin

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

— Cyrus Chestnut

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go…

— Jimmy Cliff

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

— Robert Glasper