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I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too. — Alicia Keys

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

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

I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord. — Amor Towles

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own. — Bradley Joseph

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

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

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

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it. — Juliana Hatfield

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. — Alma Gluck

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

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

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

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings. — Nina Simone

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

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. — Nick Cave

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 first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I'm pretty sure that's what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean — Sophie Kinsella

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

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano. — Norah Jones

I'm Liberace without a piano. — Paul Lynde

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings. — Evgeni Kostitsyn

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. — Kiana Tom

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players. — Harry Nilsson

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

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro

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

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

My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid. — Kelvin Yu

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

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

Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.) — Haruki Murakami

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart. — Felix Mendelssohn

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

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

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

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden. — Nancy Farmer

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

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos. — Victor Borge

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. — Michael Storm

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

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

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

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it. — Gavin DeGraw

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices. — Agnes Obel

The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know — Vladimir Horowitz

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

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

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic. — Yefim Bronfman

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

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember. — Warren Zevon

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

In one corner the piano tuner scattered arpeggios live handfuls of beads. — Boris Pasternak

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding. — Sofia Vassilieva

I play piano every day. I enjoy that. — Frank Ocean

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour. — David Luiz

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

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. — Daniel Barenboim

He played like he wanted to break the piano. — M. Pierce

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. — Sandra Bullock

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

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world. — Maurizio Pollini

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun! — Odeya Rush

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. — Alicia Keys

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

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

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

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

Wylan blushed deeper, and Jesper shook his head. "Play piano, too?" "Flute," said Wylan defensively. "Perfect. — Leigh Bardugo

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. — Kyle Dunnigan

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. — Bill Gates

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins

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

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use ... and slowly I got into playing. — Richard Clayderman

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

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales. — Conor Maynard

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

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

Piano is like drudgery. — Warren Zevon

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie

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 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

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

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. — Debra Wilson

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

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

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

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. — Travis Barker

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