Top 1200 Piano Playing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

The natural thing in Africa is to start playing soccer at 8 or 9. You go outside and you play like kids play basketball here, and you grow a feel for the game. In Africa, the kids start playing basketball at 16 or 17 or 18, and when they get an opportunity to come here, they have been playing for only one or two years.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

I'm playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called 'Elvenquest,' and I'm playing a Russian genius in the comeback of 'Red Dwarf.'

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

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

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

My mother started me on the piano when I was 3 years old.

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I play piano, a little Gershwin, before debates.

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

I always come back to the piano. It's like home.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

I'm always playing Madden, Halo, and College Football. If I'm at home, chances are I'm playing one of those three. I've had every videogame console since Nintendo.

Going back to your country and playing for a big team and being able to enjoy playing La Liga would be a good thing for my career.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

I'm not afraid of playing somebody that is playing good.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

For me, piano is just where I started; I know where to go with it.

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

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

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.