Piano Quotes
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I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.
Andrew Hollander
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill Gates
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I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!
Eva Green
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I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.
George Winston
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Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
Ethel Barrymore
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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.
Eric Garcetti
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I tend to go to the piano more because it is a very sexual instrument that reveals more sides of myself, but sometimes guitar for a certain song is the only instrument I could imagine using. Piano is very comforting to me, I’m never annoyed by it.
Sierra Swan The Black Eyed Peas
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I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
Ethel Merman
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I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
Nolan Sotillo
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I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.
Eric Stoltz
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I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.
William Eggleston
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Cecil Taylor
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Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David Bowie
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.
Lewis Capaldi
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Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
Cecil Taylor
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To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
Michel Legrand
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My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
Ethel Merman
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Tom Lehrer
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
Stephen Sondheim
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
Herbie Hancock
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This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.
Ryan Adams