Piano Quotes
-
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.
-
I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
-
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
-
I play piano and write better than I can sing.
-
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
-
I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
-
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
-
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
-
An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
-
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.
-
I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
-
If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
-
I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
-
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
-
The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
-
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
-
I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
-
I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
-
The pedal is the soul of the piano.
-
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
-
Piano is like drudgery.
-
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
-
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
-
I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.
