Piano Quotes

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

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

Piano is like drudgery.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

I don't like piano solos.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I'm not a great piano player.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

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

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

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

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.