Top 100 Quotes About Piano

#1. Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#2. He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

Andy Stanton

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#3. I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Zedd

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#4. My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Dick Dale

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#5. 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

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#6. Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

Caleb Landry Jones

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#7. I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

Keith Jarrett

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#8. The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

Alice Coltrane

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#9. I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

Rachael Yamagata

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#10. I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Nolan Sotillo

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#11. There was one point on which they were agreed: there was no way you could play classical music on a white piano.

Pascal Garnier

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#12. My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

Krystian Zimerman

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#13. And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Eva Ibbotson

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#14. I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Vanessa Mae

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#15. I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

Scott Disick

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#16. I can play ... I mean, as an effort of will I can sit down and learn a piece at the piano and reproduce it, so that those who hear will not necessarily move away with their hands clutched to their mouths, vomit leaking through fingers, blood dripping from ears.

Stephen Fry

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#17. I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Tom Verlaine

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#18. Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Warren Zevon

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

William Kingdon Clifford

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#20. I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

Conor Maynard

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#21. My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

Willie Nelson

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#22. John Cleese ... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it.

John Cleese

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#23. I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Trevor Rabin

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#24. I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

D.J. MacHale

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#25. I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Nat King Cole

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#26. Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano's martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past

W.S. Gilbert

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#27. Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Hugh Laurie

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#28. I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

Hugh Laurie

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#29. When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

Lesley Gore

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#30. That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise.
"It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano.
"A charming image," Honoria remarked.
"I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I
don't think it would sound like -

Julia Quinn

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#31. I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Elton John

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#32. I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

Yanni

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#33. When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Otis Blackwell

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#34. When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

Alicia Keys

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#35. A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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#36. It's like we have moral muscles that are trained in the same way our biological muscles are trained when we practice a golf swing or piano scales. Now

James K.A. Smith

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#37. The world's crawling with stupid,
innocent girls, and I'm just one of them, self-consciously
chasing after dreams that'll never come true. I should shut the
piano lid and come down off the stage. Before it's too late.

Haruki Murakami

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#38. I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

Andrae Crouch

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#39. I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.

Tom Odell

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#40. Well, David Bayles, to be exact - who began piano studies with a Master. After a few months' practice, David lamented to his teacher, "But I can hear the music so much better in my head than I can get out of my fingers." To which the Master replied, "What makes you think that ever changes?

David Bayles

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#41. Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Jackson Browne

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#42. My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.

Mary Lambert

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#43. It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

Arthur Rubinstein

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#44. That lady has a piano.
It's nice, but it's not the running of rivers
Or the murmuring trees make ..

Who needs a piano?
It's better to have ears
And love Nature.

Alberto Caeiro

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#45. I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

Eva Green

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#46. Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

McCoy Tyner

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#47. By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.

Jasper Rees

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#48. 11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.
What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#49. I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Alfred Hitchcock

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#50. The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

Branford Marsalis

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#51. I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

Ethel Merman

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#52. The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

Alfred Stieglitz

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#53. My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

Laura Allen

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#54. You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

John Legend

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#55. The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Al Capp

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#56. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

James Huneker

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#57. Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."
Her words silenced him, steadied him.
Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. "Ready?"
He smiled. "Play.

Marie Rutkoski

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#58. I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Suzi Quatro

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#59. Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

Graham Nash

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

David Eagleman

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#61. I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Caio Fonseca

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#62. I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.

Derek Landy

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#63. I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

Zach Braff

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#64. I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ...

Robert Pattinson

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#65. When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

Jools Holland

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#66. God likes to be played like a piano.

Pablo Medina

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#67. If life was a piano light and darkness would be the keys. And shadows would be the melody that creates the harmony.

Joe Rodriguez

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#68. The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

Dave Davies

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#69. I think about all the money that's gone into my piano lessons, and the days and weeks and hours. I have to get this right, I just have to, or else
I don't want to think about the "or else." Or else is a blank. A big gaping canyon. And on the other side of it is a person I don't know how to be.

Hilary T. Smith

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#70. A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano.

Gail Carriger

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#71. 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

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#72. There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.

Tyler Joseph

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#73. I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

Avicii

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#74. My life has been guided by an unseen piano player, who is actually typing this now.

John Lennon

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#75. A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Bill Shankly

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#76. I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.

Andrew W.K.

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#77. I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Billy Joel

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#78. PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Ambrose Bierce

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#79. I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

Barbara Lynn

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#80. I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Robert Quine

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#81. I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

Cyrus Chestnut

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#82. It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

Dave Brubeck

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#83. The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Victor Borge

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#84. I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.

Summer Sanders

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#85. I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

Gordon Lightfoot

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#86. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and felt Paisley. It smelled like a total eclipse of the moon. Of course, nearer to the tower it got really weird.

Terry Pratchett

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#87. So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

Gavin DeGraw

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#88. 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

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#89. In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

Miranda Leek

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#90. Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

Michala Petri

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#91. If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Jessi Colter

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#92. It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Agnes Obel

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#93. Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.

Hari

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#94. If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

Sara Bareilles

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#95. 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

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#96. Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

Rafal Blechacz

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#97. I've never been in love, never in my life.
Oh, I've dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night,
but my soul is like a fine piano that's locked,
and the key is lost.

Sarah Ruhl

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#98. All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

Martin Gore

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#99. Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

Flannery O'Connor

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#100. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.

Frederick Weisel

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