Piano Playing Quotes

It's kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven. — Peter Watts

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone. — Nataly Kelly

A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano. — Gail Carriger

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

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18. — George Winston

When it was for you," he said, his voice soft. "I enjoyed playing the piano when it was for you. — Julie Murphy

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. — Ronnie Milsap

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano. — Kiernan Shipka

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

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do! — Charles Hazlewood

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

I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. — Caroline Corr

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. — William Hague

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. — Flea

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths. — Max Tundra

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

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

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth. — Martin Gore

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. — Kelsey Grammer

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know — Fritzie Zivic

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

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

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

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

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

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture! — Ildar Abdrazakov

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. — Colin R. Davis

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. — Mike Shinoda

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

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice. — George Polya

One of the young officers was playing a piano in the corner, although not all the men were singing the same song. — Sebastian Faulks

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. — Jon Bon Jovi

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

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. — David Levithan

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it. — Enya

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. — Alfred Hitchcock

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. — Jerry Lee Lewis

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

I went straight in. Fade in, one ... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. — Ronald Harwood

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. — David Mamet

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

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.' — Linda Ronstadt

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear. — Kevin Richardson

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too. — Christopher Egan

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. — Leo Kottke

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. — Miranda Leek

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles. — Nat Wolff

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion. — Condola Rashad

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

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. — Gustave Flaubert

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. — Janina Gavankar

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

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. — Pete Seeger

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me. — Rafal Blechacz

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

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women. — Jamie Foxx

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. — Rashida Jones

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. — Vanessa Mae

I really like your playing — Tom Waits

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

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house. — Ella Henderson