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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

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. — Oscar Wilde

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

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive. — Oscar Levant

Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

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

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. — Trey Anastasio

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

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. — Jeff Lynne

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

There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth. — Conchitina Cruz

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians. — Tina Maze

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

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation. — Henry Miller

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

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo. — Elton John

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano! — Frederic Chopin

Hearing is believing ... a magician with the piano. — Anthony Davis

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

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

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee ... and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano

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

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

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential. — Sheri L. Dew

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine

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

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. — Gerry Mulligan

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano. — Tod Machover

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

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano. — Sherman Alexie

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

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

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. — Joan Armatrading

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano. — Rachael Yamagata

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. — Renzo Piano

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano. — Roger Moore

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

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano. — Tom Waits

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

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

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. — Arthur Rubinstein

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody. — Eric Roth

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

He remembered his cry of the night before: We must meet in the middle of the Bridge! — Kurt Vonnegut

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

An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked. — Anne Perry

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

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

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

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir. — Laurie Graham

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 don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano — Rufus Wainwright

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

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived. — Louise Penny

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. — Jonathan Dimbleby

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons. — Mark Salling

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

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing. — Vicki Lesage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano. — John Ortberg

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.' — Paul Shaffer

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind. — Herbert A. Simon

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. — Harry S. Truman

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do. — Hugh Jackman

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

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. — Nolan Sotillo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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