Quotes About Piano Players

#1. The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

David Luiz

#2. I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic.

Bill Orcutt

#3. 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

#4. I'm very fond of piano players.

Michael Parkinson

#5. Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

Hugh Laurie

#6. I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

Harry Nilsson

#7. But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

Gary Burton

#8. I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.

Daniel Rossen

#9. I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

Chuck Mangione

#10. I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Pinetop Perkins

#11. After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Tori Amos

#12. Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#13. Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Gerry Mulligan

#14. I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.

Aspen Matis

#15. It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

Brenda Russell

#16. It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

Frank Murphy

#17. The great power and malignity of Satan is seen in that among the most distressing cases were those who were not noted for great sins, but the young and comparative innocent ones were the victims of his dread power.

E. M. Bounds

#18. We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.

Mike Love

#19. Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Cootie Williams

#20. Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

Pierre Danos

#21. Cry lots, sweetness, but don't cry long.
- Gavin Taylor

Kary Rader

#22. I'm so proud to do it - there's nothing else I do that compares to 'Children in Need.'

Terry Wogan

#23. She looks like a fucking wet dream sitting on that bike. Her legs are covered in tight denim with black boots laced up to mid-calf. She has a leather jacket on and it's zipped up half way, showing off a good amount of cleavage.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#24. I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

Philipp Meyer

#25. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

Jerry Wexler

#26. As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Boz Scaggs