Top 1200 Piano Playing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

I've always wanted to walk into a hotel, sit at a piano and play 'Piano Man.'

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.

I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible microphone on top of the piano, and I really liked it and wanted to experiment with that. So, I made piano recording and really mangled it, and kept experimenting with the technique.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as well, just because I love playing. There's pieces where I want to grab an instrument and play with the rest of the group, like 'The Light of the Seven,' for example; I would love to play the piano for that.

My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

When I'm by myself and get some quiet - when the kids are doing something else - I spend time playing piano.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five different languages. Almost none of them I can read. I can read only the English editions. But, I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque. So, different musical instruments provide for different music.

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my piano with me like a bassist can take his instrument. So whenever I arrive I am a bit nervous to see what kind of piano is waiting for me.

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.