Piano Music Quotes
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I love school and science; I also love piano and music.
— Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
— Mary Street
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
— Johnny Winter
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
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
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
— John Cage
The pianokeys are black and whitebut 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 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
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
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
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
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
People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
— Christian McKay
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
— Neville Marriner
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
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
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 don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
— AraabMuzik
