Piano Quotes

• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Responsibility
  • Artist
  • Microphone

• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Painting
  • Playing
  • Kid

• You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Direct
  • Fingers
  • Contact

• I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.

  

  Terence Lewis
  • Heart
  • Sing
  • Piano

• Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

  

  Benny Carter
  • House
  • Piano
  • Oscar

• I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

  

  Mike Dean
  • Lessons
  • Started
  • Bass

• One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

  

  William Hague
  • Book
  • Piano

• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Player
  • Piano
  • Yes

• 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
  • Play
  • Palette
  • Analogous

• You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Careers

• I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Guitar
  • Lessons
  • Piano

• At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Piano
  • Drum Machines
  • Old Relic

• I am really not a speedcuber. My best time when I was practicing was about a minute. Usually people say if you can create a piano, you must be a good piano player, but it is not true. They are different type of human activities and need different capabilities.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Create
  • Practicing
  • Human activities

• Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Own
  • Personal
  • Piano

• I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

  

  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  • House
  • Books
  • Piano

• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Failure
  • Discipline
  • School Work

• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Women
  • Home
  • Machines

• Remember the music is not in the piano.

  

  Clement Mok
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Piano

• Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.

  

  Walter Russell
  • Secret
  • Musician
  • Instruments

• There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Said
  • Makeup
  • Instruments

• Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.

  

  Eddie Heywood
  • Truck
  • Sounds
  • Give Up

• I bet you can't play slide piano.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Play
  • Piano
  • Slide

• When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mother
  • Piano

• She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

  

  Eric Roth
  • Play
  • Piano

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