Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Enya

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

Gary Oldman

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Henry Miller

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

Cassandra Clare

Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.

That's why he wrote so many piano concertos.

Janel Parrish

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

Harold Budd

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

Mike Shinoda

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

Mike Shinoda

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

Imogen Heap

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

Hugh Laurie

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Hugh Laurie

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

Howard Shore

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

Jacques Barzun

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Micky Dolenz

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.

Jools Holland

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

Jo Nesbo

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

Emeli Sande

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

James Levine

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

Joan Didion

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

John Cale

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

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.

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.

Kiernan Shipka

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

Little Richard

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

Mstislav Rostropovich

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