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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. — Adam Driver

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano. — Guy Picciotto

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. — Howard Shore

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. — Oscar Wilde

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five. — Madi Diaz

It's hard to go underground when you weigh 400 pounds, Marcus. That's why they'll have to bury you in a piano case. — Jem Fox

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. — Trey Anastasio

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

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be. — Benjamin Clementine

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on. — Michel Legrand

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college. — Masi Oka

God likes to be played like a piano. — Pablo Medina

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that. — Alexis Dziena

There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth. — Conchitina Cruz

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians. — Tina Maze

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving. — Stephen King

Sing us a song you're the piano man.
Sing us a song tonight.
Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got us feeling all right. — Billy Joel

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. — James Rhodes

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo. — Elton John

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

Hearing is believing ... a magician with the piano. — Anthony Davis

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented. — Ryan Eggold

I'm Liberace without a piano. — Paul Lynde

Iris, if you were a melody ... piano melody. I used only the good notes. — Jack Black

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. — Keith Richards

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. — Bill Shankly

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. — Frank Sinatra

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. — Angela Carter

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano? — Malcolm Gladwell

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano. — Sherman Alexie

I'd like to be a piano player. — Chris Daughtry

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. — Joan Didion

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor. — Maximilian Schell

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind. — Herbert A. Simon

There was one point on which they were agreed: there was no way you could play classical music on a white piano. — Pascal Garnier

Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better. — Thelonious Monk

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano. — William Kingdon Clifford

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing. — Vicki Lesage

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands. — Billy Joel

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived. — Louise Penny

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune. — Pierre Danos

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. — Elton John

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir. — Laurie Graham

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid. — Katie Cassidy

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano. — Carolyn Kizer

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. — Mike Stoller

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

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend. — Ahmad Jamal

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. — Aimee Mann

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. — Paul McCartney

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important. — Mark Knopfler

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. — Joanna Newsom

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it. — Robin Weigert

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out ... — Ryan Adams

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

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. — Billy Joel

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. — Mark Twain

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church. — Al Jarreau

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software. — Nadia Ali

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction. — Agnes Obel

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. — Austin Butler

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up. — John Legend

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children. — Renzo Piano

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good. — Louise Nurding

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates. — Atticus Ross

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes. — Victoria Legrand

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

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? — Barbara Lynn

Julie's voice could have been used to tune a piano. She was pitch perfect - and I never was. I was enjoyably close. — Dick Van Dyke

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. — Meg Rosoff

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living. — Jamie Foxx

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998. — John Legend

I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano — Rufus Wainwright

A truly great piano is one that enables you to convey deep emotion — Sviatoslav Richter

Love is like the piano there are black and white and must play both for a beautiful melody. — Khaled Naili

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. — Ernie Isley

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. — Margot Asquith

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto — Andy Stanton

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential. — Sheri L. Dew

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

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 sitting at the piano. — Tom Waits

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos. — Diana Krall

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 piano. — Arthur Rubinstein

Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano. — John Ortberg

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college. — Cory Michael Smith

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench. — Milton H. Erickson

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. — Harry S. Truman

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. — Joan Armatrading

John Cleese ... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it. — John Cleese

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. — Mick Ralphs

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument. — Howard Shore

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. — Reem Acra

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune. — Rene Coty

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle) — Ani DiFranco

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano. — Dennis Wilson

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist. — Jeffrey Fry