Piano Quotes · Page 32

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the…

— Drake Bell

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

— Eddie Izzard

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

— Chirlane McCray

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

— Caroline Corr

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

— Al Capp

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

— Billy Eckstine

For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my…

— Hiromi

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of…

— John de Lancie

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a…

— Alfred Stieglitz

My uncle was an Indian singer for a long time. He was pretty popular in India. He was one of the first…

— Nav

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me…

— Rufus Wainwright

There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a…

— John Tesh

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer…

— Bo Burnham

I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to…

— Sarah Weinman

“I think about all the money that’s gone into my piano lessons, and the days and weeks and hours. I have to…

— Hilary T. Smith

I got called to write for Aerosmith, nothing ever came of it, but I ended up spending the day with Steven Tyler…

— Bonnie McKee

I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The…

— Ed Helms

My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I…

— Pete Seeger

I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project.…

— Sharon Van Etten

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a…

— Paul Haslinger

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was…

— Kina Grannis

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

— Warren Zevon

Life is like a piano, there are black and white and you have to play both to have a beautiful melody!

— Anonymous

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

— Trent Reznor

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

— Mike Figgis

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

— Robert Quine

I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.

— Sara Bareilles

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

— Margot Asquith

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

— Alicia Witt

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

— Joseph Parker

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

— Thelonious Monk

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

— Mike Shinoda

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

— Tom Odell

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

— Gary Oldman

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

— Billie Eilish

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

— Jack Black