Imagery 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

“Once in a while, she said, the patients put on a theatrical show here, and beneath the stage a magnificent grand piano awaited the…

— Norman Lewis

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music, that the…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Glenn Gould

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

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where…

— Ron Rothfield

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Piano symbolizes interiority.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists. ”

— Joseph Gies

Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical…

— Carlo Grante

“Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing a celestial…

— Tori Amos

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

— Ludwig van Beethoven