Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Mann

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

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.

Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Anton Rubinstein

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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.

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.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Eddie Van Halen

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

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

Alfred Stieglitz

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

Abel Korzeniowski

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Roger Williams

Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains.

Abbie Cornish

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Fred Rogers

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

David Bowie

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

Daniel Barenboim

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

Colin Greenwood

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Clement Mok

Remember the music is not in the piano.

Cynthia Ozick

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

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.

Ann Voskamp

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

Alber Elbaz

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

E. M. Forster

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

Donal Henahan

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.

David Mamet

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

Dave Brubeck

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Cy Coleman

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

Dave Matthews

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.

Dolly Parton

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Andres Segovia

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.