Piano Quotes
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Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or what tuning the piano is. It doesn't matter. It all doesn't matter. It only matters what people think when they leave the room and what their impression was.
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I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
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Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
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A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.
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As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.
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Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.
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I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
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I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.
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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
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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.
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I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
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There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.
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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.
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People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'
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I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
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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.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.
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She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
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In my spare time, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It’s fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
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Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
