Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Agnes Obel

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Brian Wilson

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Janina Gavankar

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Jane Campion

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

John Sinclair

We're still hauling pianos around and relocating mailboxes.

Billy Taylor

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

Carlos Mencia

When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.

Dino Brugioni

We have to get these to the White House.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Alan Shearer

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Alan Keyes

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Charlie Gonzalez

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

C. S. Lewis

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Chanakya

If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

Catherynne M. Valente

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

Bill Murray

You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.

Bill Maher

Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

Clarence Day

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.