Piano Playing Quotes
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Piano Playing Quotes & Sayings
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It's kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.
— Peter Watts
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 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 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
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
— Gustave Flaubert
I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.
— Kevin Richardson
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
— Leo Kottke
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 actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
— T.D. Jakes
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
— David Mamet
I went straight in. Fade in, one ... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.
— Ronald Harwood
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
If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
— Jerry Lee Lewis
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
There was something about her playing ... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
— Marisha Pessl
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 grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
— Janina Gavankar
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
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
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 give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know
— Fritzie Zivic
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 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
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 sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
— Martin Gore
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 have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ...
— Robert Pattinson
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
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
— Alfred Doblin
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
— Kate Bush
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
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 enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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 could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
— Ildar Abdrazakov
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
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
— Gary Oldman