Grand Piano Quotes

#1. I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

Jamie Cullum

#2. All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

Sam Haskins

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

William Kingdon Clifford

#4. I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

John Tesh

#5. Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano. Modern art [by Salvador Dali].

Joan Wehlen Morrison

#6. I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#7. And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano ... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

Chantal Kreviazuk

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

Nicholas Haslam

#9. That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?

Deborah Meyler

#10. This was a pretty girl, except she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

David Hyde Pierce

#12. I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

Penn Jillette

#13. It seemed Paris somehow managed to absorb all the beautiful things the rest of the world discarded; it was a sparkling and bejeweled box of lost treasures, a wondrous cabinet that hummed with soft horn harmonies played against a grand piano's minor chords.

Toby Barlow

#14. An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.

Anne Perry

#15. They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

Ruta Sepetys

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

Christopher Cross

#17. Surprising how many people assumed that when a helicopter failed it simply rotored on down. Truth was, it fell with the aerodynamics of a grand piano.

Carver Greene

#18. You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

Deirdre O'Kane

#19. Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

Jeffrey Fry

#20. Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

Victor Borge

#21. The family story tells, and it was told true,
of my great-grandfather who begat eight
genius children and bought twelve almost new
grand pianos. He left a considerable estate
when he died.

Anne Sexton

#22. She turned back to the piano. In the last days of her life, she had finally realized her grand dream: to play with her heart and soul, for as long as she wanted and whenever the mood took her.

Paulo Coelho

#23. I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

Volker Bertelmann

#24. Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

Maurizio Pollini

#25. I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

Alicia Keys

#26. In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Theodore E. Steinway

#27. I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

J. D. Souther

#28. You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Isidor Isaac Rabi