Piano Quotes

Piano is like drudgery.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

I don't like piano solos.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I'm not a great piano player.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

I play the piano and write music.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.