Best Piano Qoutes
860 Piano quotes by 622 unique authors
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He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ…
— Matthew Sweet
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
— Anais Nin
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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
— Mark Twain
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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos…
— Diane Cilento
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Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
— James Huneker
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not…
— Anthony Trollope
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It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry…
— John Ruskin
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I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
— Victor Borge
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
— Victor Borge
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
— Victor Borge
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Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you…
— Brendon Urie
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I…
— Otis Blackwell
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Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
— Margot Robbie
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I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.
— Scott Disick
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It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of…
— Linda Lavin
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough…
— Barry Mann
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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
— Andrea Gibson
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I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
— Condola Rashad
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Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to…
— Paul Bley
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Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge…
— Jon Pareles
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In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into…
— Koren Zailckas
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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated…
— Robert Schumann
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Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your…
— Heather King
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