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.

Benny Carter

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

Bill Gates

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

Delta Goodrem

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

Conor Maynard

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

Clark Gable

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano

Aprilynne Pike

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

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Eddie Van Halen

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Artur Schnabel

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Bruce Forsyth

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

Brendon Urie

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

Branford Marsalis

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

Brian Wilson

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

Unfortunately, I was hauling a piano on that one.

Diana Krall

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Fred Rogers

When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Conrad Sewell

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Charles Bukowski

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Cecil Taylor

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

Cecil Taylor

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.