Top 1200 Piano Playing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

I've been playing 90 minutes in MLS games. But when you're playing internationally in World Cup qualifiers, there's a little bit extra incentive there. It's win or go home.

There's something cool about playing 'Tempted' and then picking up the mandolin and playing 'Dark as a Dungeon' and standing on the classics. It's nice to just let soul rule.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

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

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

On the road you have to be more organized. Also, a crowd's energy helps you focus. Nothing compares to playing live. You have to slamdunk whatever you're playing. In the studio, you can do things over.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

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

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

If you're playing 55 to 60 snaps, you have opportunities to pace yourself, pick spots. When you're not playing as many and you don't know necessarily when you're going to be in, you do have to sometimes make it happen when you're out there.

Playing for England in Spain was really hard but racism is still in the game, which it shouldn't be. I think when you're playing the best thing to do is block it out like you do with everything else.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

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

Paul Sinha is a very good piano player and singer.

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting world parallel many of the inner working of music - how intervals resolve into each other, harmonic rhythm, tonal things - there's a whole vocabulary that overlaps. Sometimes people see pianos in my works - that I never think.

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I loved playing 'Ultima.' Getting my computer in college and playing 'Wing Commander.' I hear a lot from our fans, and they are the same way. Games are where I want to be.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there's definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

Without being disrespectful to Leverkusen, playing for Liverpool helps me more because I am playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I have no regrets making this step.

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.