Top 1200 Piano Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

For me, I think the toughest player I came up against was Messi; he's out of this world, he's a genius. For me he's the best in the world, a great player and I think he's the toughest opponent I've played against.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.

I've been Offensive Player of the Week. I've been Offensive Player of the Month.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

On the piano, I cover all styles. I turn to it for inspiration in sport, and whenever I need my rest.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

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

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's no one on the globe who will be able to accompany you" and no one ever did. [Scott LaFaro] was playing atonally and certainly Ornette was not an atonal player. Jimmy Garrison was a tonal player. He wasn't even polytonal or atonal.

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

I have never, ever, received any taunts or any form of anti-Semitism. And I suppose being a Jewish football player with the Atlanta Falcons was no different than being a Baptist football player with the Atlanta Falcons. But in the back of your mind, you always expect something to happen.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

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

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I still remember the time when I visited the wax museum in London. While there were statues of many sports personalities, including that of Sachin Tendulkar, I didn't see a wax figure of any hockey player. I was a little disappointed at that time, and I hoped that one day, at least in India, someone would make a wax statue of a hockey player.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'

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

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

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

I grew up playing piano and violin, and then basketball took over.

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

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous.