Fingers Quote by Glenn Gould

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves,…

— Robert Schumann

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

— Glenn Gould

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.

— Anne Bosworth Greene

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

— David Bryan

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of…

— Tom Waits

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

— Marc Chagall

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my…

— Stephen Hough

When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and…

— George Eliot

Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you…

— Allan Holdsworth

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is…

— Jose Saramago

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do…

— Jerry Lee Lewis