This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory,… — Kenny Werner Copy Share Image
I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing.… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard.… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a… — Jayma Mays Copy Share Image
I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player.… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off… — Beck Copy Share Image
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a… — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
“I hadn't done any fooling around in so long, I didn't know what to do. I sort of wanted to lose weight… — Hilary Winston Copy Share Image
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a… — Jane McDonald Copy Share Image
![“Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'” quote by Stevie Nicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/stevie-nicks-2817_aspens_lindsey-buckingham-and-i-went-up-to-aspe_908461.jpg)
