Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wilson

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

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.

David Mamet

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

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.

Andres Segovia

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

Chuck Brown

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

Alma Gluck

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.

Anthony Hopkins

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Alicia Witt

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

Alicia Witt

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

Alicia Keys

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

Amy Williams

God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create 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.

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.

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.

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.

David Bowie

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

Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Fred Rogers

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

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.

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.