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