Quotes about piano
piano piano-playing bud
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. Matthew Shipp
piano notes pianist
The piano ain't got no wrong notes. Thelonious Monk
piano guitar play
I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. Michael Storm
piano guitar parent
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it. Micky Dolenz
piano trying unemployment
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. Henry Hazlitt
piano white differences
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
piano littles talent
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.
piano play looks
I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play. Taylor Swift
piano frustrated firsts
If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat. Sara Bareilles
piano evil lucifer
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
piano guitar trying
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
piano people able
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
piano drivers wells
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
piano boundaries
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano
piano house plus
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it
piano discipline trouble
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. Renzo Piano
piano design masters
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. Rebecca West
piano mind desire
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 Schumann
piano lessons piano-lesson
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. Robert Quine
piano secret machines
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you. Walter Russell
piano atoms complexes
An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano. William Kingdon Clifford
piano lessons want
I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie. Zach Braff
piano orchestra knows
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know Vladimir Horowitz
piano perfect doe
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
piano students mediocre
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
piano rooms drag
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.
piano language speak
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. Keith Jarrett
piano people pieces
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. Ruggiero Ricci
piano track musician
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. Roy Ayers
piano lovely radio
I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. Ronald Harwood
piano like-you really-like-you
I really like your playing Tom Waits
piano strings fingers
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano. Tommy Bolin
piano lessons grew
I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. Tom Verlaine