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.

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

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.

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.

I don't like piano solos.

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.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

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

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

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.

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.

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

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

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

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.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

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.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

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.