Piano Quotes

I play piano every day.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

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

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

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

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'

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

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

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.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

I'm very fond of piano players.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.