Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sinclair

We're still hauling pianos around and relocating mailboxes.

Isabelle Huppert

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach

Glenn Gould

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

Morton Gould

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

Morton Feldman

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap

Mose Allison

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

Thelonious Monk

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Michael Storm

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

Randy Newman

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Henry Hazlitt

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

George Gershwin

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

George Gershwin

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Norah Jones

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

Miranda Kerr

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

Penn Jillette

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

Peg Bracken

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

Matthew Shipp

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Ronald Harwood

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

Stephen Sondheim

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

Placido Domingo

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

Taylor Swift

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Tommy Bolin

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

Tom Verlaine

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Tom Waits

I really like your playing

Steven Price

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

T. D. Jakes

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

Kevin Kline

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Kevin Kline

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Keith Jarrett

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

Renzo Piano

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Rebecca West

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Regina Spektor

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Paul Lynde

I'm Liberace without a piano.