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I love school and science; I also love piano and music. — Isaac Hempstead-Wright

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that. — Paul Smith

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy. — Mary Street

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences. — Robert Schumann

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house. — Johnny Winter

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff. — Nikki Jean

He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him. — Claire Legrand

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 was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs. — Jens Lekman

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano. — Alfred Brendel

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. — Edith Sitwell

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings. — Martin Gore

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then. — Yoko Shimomura

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. — Ambrose Bierce

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music. — Brian Wilson

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

The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind — Maria Cristina Mena

I'll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works. — Shawn Lukas

I played piano, I learned a lot about music. — Maximilian Schell

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. — Ian Axel

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

I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain. — Julie Halpern

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it. — Micky Dolenz

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician. — Ethel Merman

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal. — Shook

If life was a piano light and darkness would be the keys. And shadows would be the melody that creates the harmony. — Joe Rodriguez

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. — Jayne Meadows

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin. — Jasper Rees

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano. — Andrae Crouch

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. — T.D. Jakes

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work. — I.M. Pei

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt ... you weird talking person. — Eddie Izzard

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. — Janel Parrish

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me. — Michel Legrand

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age. — Jim Parsons

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus. — Christian McKay

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. — Artur Schnabel

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano. — Darryl F. Zanuck

Remember the music is not in the piano. — Clement Mok

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. — Vanessa Carlton

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater. — Aprilynne Pike

You can run out of garlic, you can't really run out of music — Jace Wayland

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work. — Tori Amos

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — Robert Gottlieb

I play the piano and write music. — Anwar Robinson

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five. — Eddie Van Halen

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment. — Ashley Bryan

There was something about her playing ... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form. — Marisha Pessl

To master the piano is to master the universe. — Russell Sherman

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

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did. — John Cale

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it. — Hugh Laurie

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged. — Billy Joel

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. — Bob Hope

When you play, never mind who listens to you. — Robert Schumann

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. — Condoleezza Rice

Play always as if in the presence of a master. — Robert Schumann

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within. — Alice Coltrane

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music. — Maceo Parker

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

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years. — Condola Rashad

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. — Igor Stravinsky

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 turn my back on him as he goes,
and settle myself in the parlor,
and touch Ma's piano.
My fingers leave sighs
in the dust. — Karen Hesse

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

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

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. — Gioachino Rossini

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ... — Robert Pattinson

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too. — Son Lux

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

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. — Henry David Thoreau

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. — Kate Bush

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it. — Richie Havens

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you. — Arthur Rubinstein

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

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. — Emeli Sande

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy. — James Huneker

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments. — Dave Matthews

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. — Kenneth R. Miller

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music. — Alber Elbaz

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18. — Lukas Haas

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

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life. — Thad Carhart

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. — Thelonious Monk

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

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third. — Frances Elliott Clark

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. — Gary Oldman

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three. — Jeanine Tesori

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine. — Mariska Hargitay

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work ... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano. — Drake Bell

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball. — Michael Franti

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music. — Ramon Gomez De La Serna

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. — Ann Voskamp

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with. — David Lambert

I play a piano of words - its icy tinkle echoes through your halls — John Geddes

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. — AraabMuzik

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost. — Anton Chekhov

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. — Luka Sulic