Top 1200 Piano Playing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

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

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

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

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

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

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

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

To me, a day off is sitting at a piano or with a guitar and writing.

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

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

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

They've been a thorn in our side, but we're playing for more than just revenge. We're coming out and playing for the Big Ten tournament championship. If we beat them, that'll be great.

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

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

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

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

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

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

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

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

You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like a language. You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you've accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it's all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

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

Playing for the Giants for four years, you had this idea that the Jets are the other team, and then, going to Miami and playing in the same division, you learned to hate them as well.

I was working with the computer at university and playing jazz in the daytime, buying west-coast psychedelic and early Kraftwerk records in the afternoon, and playing folk at night. I was quite busy!

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

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

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

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

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

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

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

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

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

I grew up playing baseball, playing soccer, having a paper route, while running my own small lawn mowing and snow shovelling businesses as a kid.

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

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

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

I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.

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