Piano Quotes

• After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Learn
  • Piano
  • Orchestra

• Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Music
  • Piano

• I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Guitar
  • Karaoke

• When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Everything
  • Piano
  • Chopin

• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Piano

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

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Like
  • Down
  • Piano

• I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Moment
  • Emotion
  • Improvisations

• Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Remember
  • Piano
  • Early

• I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Trying
  • Three
  • Piano

• I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Pretty
  • Play
  • Always

• I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Song
  • Playing
  • Pianist

• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Music
  • Years
  • Lazy

• I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Story
  • Old
  • Piano

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Children
  • Voice
  • Puberty

• Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

  

  Darryl F. Zanuck
  • Music
  • Keys
  • Slap

• You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Learning

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

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Work
  • Play
  • Going

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Church

• That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

  

  Morton Gould
  • Fundamentals
  • Composer
  • Conducting

• I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

  

  William Golding
  • Play
  • Sitting
  • Stools

• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

  Beck
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Electric

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