Top 1200 Piano Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

One day, I would love to learn how to play piano and guitar.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

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

So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

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

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then there's the kind of folk music that I aspire to and am in awe of, and that is the kind of folk music where it's very limited tools - in most cases a guitar, in a self-taught style that is idiosyncratic and particular to that musician.

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

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

I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

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

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

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.