There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the back of… — Carlos Hernández Copy Share Image
Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the… — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano. — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a musician or composer, whenever I am recording a song I imagine myself sitting beside my piano and singing the song… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember… — Borns Copy Share Image
I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano.… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices:… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Oscar Peterson's 'Hymn to Freedom' is the first song I ever lifted on the piano. I learned it note-for-note and it's still… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in… — Heather King Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the flute was in its simplicity, in its resemblance to the human voice. It always sounded clear. It sounded… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image