Top 1200 Piano Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

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

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

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

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

Every position is a bit different, but for a young player it's important to be able to play different positions, to see the game in a different view, to learn of every position. Because you need different skills, and it's perfect for a young player to develop.

I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different... like a bass player or a keyboard player - they're not more important than any other musician.

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

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

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

The computer is limited in expression. It can't do what the human player can do. What's dangerous is that you fall for writing for the computer and what sounds good on it instead of writing something that actually sounds good when a player performs it. It's dangerous when you go down that road.

The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

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.

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

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

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

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

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

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

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

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

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

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

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

I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.

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

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.

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

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

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

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

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

The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].

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

I was really good, I had a coach who said to me, 'If you want to be a top player, you will need to play as a central defender. If you want to be a good player, you will be a midfielder.' I think he was wrong but, maybe as a central defender, I could be much better, I don't know!

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

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

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

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

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

There are many clever contractual ways to let a young player continue his career elsewhere while still having first option to bring them back in future. Contracts can include a buyback clause such as Barcelona had with Cesc Fabregas, or a sell-on clause where the development club benefit financially from all the work invested in the young player.

Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much about him. He had so much quality and he was a player I looked to growing up. Him and Tony Adams - another footballer who's won it all.

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

As a player, I have this feeling - and I think every player thinks this - that I am responsible for how my team-mates feel. I just want to do my best and give 100 per cent, and if I do that, they will feel better and think, 'I will give 100%.'

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

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

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

Of course team spirit and team's strategy matters more than anything else as far as the team is concerned. As far as I am concerned, if the presence of one player is affecting the morale or the spirit of the team, then we might as well rest that player for a while.

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

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

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

There are maybe four or five teams who will pay whatever they need to pay to get the player. They are huge sums, but that is the world we now live in - when one of those four or five teams want a player, then they usually get them.