Piano Keyboard Quotes

#1. Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

David Eagleman

#2. After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Jeff Britting

#3. Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

Paul McCartney

#4. I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

Benmont Tench

#5. In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

Wassily Kandinsky

#6. As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

Gustave Flaubert

#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. I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Herbert Hoover

#9. Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?

Franz Kafka

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

Wassily Kandinsky

#11. I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Ray Manzarek

#12. The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.

Hiromi

#13. I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.

Stephen Merchant

#14. Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

S. Leonard Rubinstein

#15. Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

#16. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

William Sanderson

#17. You're amazing," she whispered hoarsely.
He pushed back the hair from her face. "You too."
"How? All I do is let you play me like a piano."
He chuckled. "You've got a great keyboard.

Ashlyn Chase

#18. With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

John Cage

#19. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Wassilly Kandinsky

#20. I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

William Feather

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

Abbie Cornish

#22. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Artur Schnabel

#23. My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.

Brian Wilson