Top 100 Play Piano Quotes
#1. Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
Ben Folds
#2. I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.
Pinetop Perkins
#3. My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.
Josephine De La Baume
#4. I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
Lucas Grabeel
#5. Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
Stephen Sondheim
#6. Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
Dizzy Gillespie
#7. Wylan blushed deeper, and Jesper shook his head. "Play piano, too?" "Flute," said Wylan defensively. "Perfect.
Leigh Bardugo
#8. My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
Robert B. Laughlin
#9. I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.
Alaina Huffman
#10. Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.
Paul Bley
#11. If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.
Jools Holland
#12. There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.
John Fullbright
#14. I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
Cherry Jones
#15. 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
#16. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
Trent Reznor
#17. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Arthur Rubinstein
#18. In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
Yann Tiersen
#19. There was always a piano around the house and I've got other brothers and sisters but I'm the youngest, and none of them ever wanted to play it. So I guess I was the only one that was gonna end up playing it, if it was one of us.
Ella Henderson
#20. A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.
Charles Petzold
#21. At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
Jools Holland
#22. I've been scuffed up a little, but I just hope and pray that I keep my youthful looks for as long as possible. I grew up in a musical family
my mom sings and my father plays the piano. They were both very active in the church.
Cyrus Chestnut
#23. I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.
Louise Nurding
#24. I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.
Matt Smith
#25. I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
Anthony Hopkins
#26. I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.
Sirena Huang
#27. When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope
#28. If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.
Dean Koontz
#29. I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
Bonnie Raitt
#30. I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
Brian Wilson
#31. I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.
Antje Traue
#32. A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Fiona Shaw
#33. It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
David Gilmour
#34. I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.
Vanessa Hudgens
#35. I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.
Colin Hay
#36. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
Artur Schnabel
#37. My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
#38. I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
Taylor Swift
#39. I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
Ellen Hollman
#40. The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
Ansel Adams
#41. I don't play accurately
any one can play accurately
but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
Oscar Wilde
#42. I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
Jayne Meadows
#43. I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute ... Just not well.
Kat Dennings
#44. I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom
#45. My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
Miranda Leek
#46. My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.
Kim Basinger
#47. I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
Abbie Cornish
#49. I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!
Gary Barlow
#50. I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
Austin Butler
#51. Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
John Ortberg
#52. When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."
Zooey Deschanel
#53. 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
#54. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
Jeremy Renner
#55. The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
Francine Pascal
#56. I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
Caroline Corr
#57. I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.
Roger Moore
#58. Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony.
Lucy 'Aisy
#59. Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.
What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.
David Markson
#60. Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
Eddie Heywood
#61. She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
Eric Roth
#62. The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.
Peter Campbell
#63. There's one point where I play the piano upside down. When I first did that, I hit my head and it really hurt. But people were laughing, so we've kept it in ever since. I probably have severe brain damage.
Richard Hyung-ki Joo
#64. Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.
Jon Pareles
#65. I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.
Evgeny Kissin
#66. 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
#67. My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
James Weldon Johnson
#68. I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
AraabMuzik
#69. I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.
Lady Gaga
#70. I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.
Harry Connick Jr.
#71. I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
Gabrielle Aplin
#72. Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.
Mao Zedong
#73. My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
Brian Austin Green
#74. I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
Katy B
#75. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
Steven Wright
#76. Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.
Chandler Canterbury
#77. I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
Alexis Dziena
#78. The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
Kate Bush
#79. I play a piano of words - its icy tinkle echoes through your halls
John Geddes
#80. I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
Luc Ferrari
#81. I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.
Danielle Bradbery
#82. I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.
Jade Hassoune
#84. We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#85. I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
Bryan Ferry
#86. I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week ... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Taylor Hawkins
#87. I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.
Kevin Richardson
#88. I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
Eliza Coupe
#89. Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.
Daniel Powter
#90. Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
Charles M. Schwab
#91. I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.
Robbie Jones
#92. Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.
Ray Charles
#93. I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.
John Mayall
#94. I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
Debbie Gibson
#95. Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Tom Lehrer
#96. To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
Michel Legrand
#97. Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!
Odeya Rush
#98. I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.
Daphne Guinness
#99. For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
Matt Damon
#100. You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
Malcolm Gladwell
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
