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. Wylan blushed deeper, and Jesper shook his head. "Play piano, too?" "Flute," said Wylan defensively. "Perfect.
Leigh Bardugo
#5. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
Trent Reznor
#6. 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
#7. I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
Brian Wilson
#8. A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Fiona Shaw
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
AraabMuzik
#14. I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.
Harry Connick Jr.
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.
Jade Hassoune
#18. I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.
Kevin Richardson
#19. 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
#20. To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
Michel Legrand
#21. I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.
Daphne Guinness
#22. He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
Matthew Sweet
#24. Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Janel Parrish
#25. I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs ... and good ones.
Nina Simone
#26. I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.
David Lambert
#27. Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.
Zooey Deschanel
#28. I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.
Lisa Loeb
#30. Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
Charles Phillips
#31. Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.
Dustin Lynch
#32. My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
Aaron Levie
#33. I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
Mick Taylor
#34. I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."
Colin Munroe
#35. My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.
Noah Gray-Cabey
#36. I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.
Richard Fleeshman
#37. Each day after class lets out,each morning before it begins, i sit at the school piano and make my hands work. in spite of the pain, in spite of the stiffness and scars. i make my hands play piano.i have practiced my best piece over and over till my arms throb.
Karen Hesse
#38. Why say then Buddha never carried gun?
he didn't play piano,
we do not know of him
making pictures either.
Suman Pokhrel
#39. I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano ... we'd play mandolin.
Bob Livingston
#40. My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
Gerard Way
#41. I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
Josh Klinghoffer
#42. If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.
Future
#43. I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
Wynton Marsalis
#44. 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
#45. I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
Mike Figgis
#46. I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.
Kip Winger
#47. When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.
Melanie Laurent
#48. I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.
Lia Ices
#49. I play piano and write better than I can sing.
Irene Cara
#50. I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.
Michael Cera
#51. I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.
Jane Seymour
#52. My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.
Mary Lambert
#54. I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
Janina Gavankar
#55. When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
#56. 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
#57. I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
Lucas Grabeel
#58. 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
#59. Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
Dizzy Gillespie
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Arthur Rubinstein
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.
Antje Traue
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
Artur Schnabel
#84. 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
#85. I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
Taylor Swift
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
Jayne Meadows
#89. 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
#90. I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom
#91. My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
Miranda Leek
#92. 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
#93. I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
Abbie Cornish
#94. I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
Austin Butler
#95. Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
John Ortberg
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
Francine Pascal
#99. I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
Caroline Corr
#100. I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.
Roger Moore
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