Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McCartney

I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

Pinetop Perkins

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

Pinetop Perkins

I play any piano with a good tune.

Victor Borge

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

Victor Borge

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Victor Borge

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

Victor Borge

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

Robert Schumann

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

Robert Quine

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Tori Amos

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano...

Tori Amos

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

Vanessa Carlton

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave

Vanessa Carlton

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is

Vanessa Carlton

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano

Vanessa Carlton

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it

Robert Glasper

Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

Ruggiero Ricci

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

Rufus Wainwright

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

Roy Ayers

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

Vladimir Horowitz

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

Vladimir Horowitz

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

Twyla Tharp

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

Warren Zevon

I don't like piano solos.

Warren Zevon

Piano is like drudgery.

Warren Zevon

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

Warren Zevon

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Warren Zevon

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Herbie Hancock

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Gyorgy Ligeti

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

Gyorgy Ligeti

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Gary Vaynerchuk

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Jerry Lee Lewis

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.