Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Gould

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

Paul Lynde

I'm Liberace without a piano.

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.

Placido Domingo

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

Hans Zimmer

I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized that this was, you know, there was magic there, there was magic to be had, you could lose yourself in it, it was a refuge, it was joy, it was all of those things.

Gustave Flaubert

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

Gordon Lightfoot

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

Gordon Lightfoot

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

John Legend

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

Joseph Haydn

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

Oscar Peterson

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

Julian Cope

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

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.

Marion Cotillard

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

Little Richard

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

Neko Case

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

Marvin Gaye

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Mstislav Rostropovich

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Kiana Tom

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

Mark Twain

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

Imogen Heap

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

Kenneth R. Miller

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

Kenneth R. Miller

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

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.

Nina Simone

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

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.