The Piano Quotes

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
- Tori Amos

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.
- Thelonious Monk

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
- Hermann Hesse

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?
- Fiona Apple

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
- Fiona Apple

That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise.
"It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano.
"A charming image," Honoria remarked.
"I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I
don't think it would sound like
- Julia Quinn

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- Oscar Wilde

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
- Oscar Wilde

Yet complicated people were getting wet - not only the shepherds. For instance, the piano-tuner was sopping. So was the vicar's wife. So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battlesden car. Gallantry, charity, and art pursued their various missions, perspiring and muddy, while out on the slopes beyond them stood the eternal man and the eternal dog, guarding eternal sheep until the world is vegetarian.
- E M Forster

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.
- E M Forster

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
- Otis Blackwell

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
- Carla Bley

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
- Alicia Keys

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
- Alicia Keys

I play the piano and write music.
- Anwar Robinson

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
- Victor Borge

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
- David Bowie

Once, when I remarked that she looked like a disoriented bandicoot, she leapt up from the piano bench and beat me within an inch of my life with a rolled-up piano sonata by Schubert. Ophelia has no sense of humor.
- Alan Bradley

I've lost someone, too," he reminded her.
"It's not the same!" She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. "I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn't say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can't get those years back.
But maybe if I hadn't been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra... stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!
- Nicholas Sparks

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
- Vanessa Brown

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
- Jackson Browne

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
- Dave Brubeck

The piano is kind of my second instrument.
- Bill Bruford

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
- Harold Budd

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
- Barbara Ann Scott

I could scream down 90 mountains
to less than dust
if only one living human had eyes in the head
and heart in the body,
but there is no chance,
my god,
no chance.
rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog,
play the piano drunk
listen to the drunk piano,
realize the myth of mercy
stand still
as even a child's voice snarls
and we have not been fooled,
it was only that we wanted to believe.
- Charles Bukowski

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
- Alex Ferguson

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

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
- Vanessa Carlton

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
- Vanessa Carlton

Mrs. Kronborg was a strange woman. That word "talent", which no one else in Moonstone, not even Dr. Archie, would have understood, she comprehended perfectly. To any other woman there, it would have meant that a child must have her hair curled every day and must play in public. Mrs. Kronborg knew it meant that Thea must practice four hours a day. A child with talent must be kept at the piano, just as a child with measles must be kept under the blankets.
- Willa Cather

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano.
- Stephen Jay Gould

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.
- Jim Coleman

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.
- Judy Collins

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
- Harry Connick Jr

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.
- Julian Cope

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
- Caroline Corr

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
- Caroline Corr

You're really a blond," she said, her tone just short of accusatory.
"And if you tell anyone, I will come to you in the night and smote your everlasting soul."
Promise? Isobel turned back to the piano quickly, shocked that she'd almost uttered this aloud.
- Kelly Creagh

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
- Dick Dale

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
- Matt Damon

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
- Gavin Degraw

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
- Gavin Degraw

The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90
- Sheri L Dew

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
- Placido Domingo

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
- Placido Domingo

Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of them flanked by a bedside table and a lamp. Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below.
- Milan Kundera

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.
- George Duke

It's beautiful to have a smoking jacket, a good cigar and a wife who plays the piano. So relaxing. So lenitive. Between the acts you go out for a smoke and a breath of fresh air.
- Henry Miller

On the stage Tristen bent over the piano, his fingers swift and sure, his blond hair gleaming under the spotlight. I glanced around at the audience, watching their faces, gratified that they were as captivated as I was by the dark, thunderous song that Tristen conjured.
- Beth Fantaskey

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.
- Hope Emerson

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
- Keith Emerson

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
- Enya

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
- John Fahey

Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.
- Nancy Farmer

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.
- Morton Feldman

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.
- Luc Ferrari

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
- Zelda Fitzgerald

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
- Roberta Flack

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
- Gustave Flaubert

It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.
- Gayle Forman

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
- Lady Gaga

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.
- Philip Larkin

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
- Marvin Gaye

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
- Maurice Gibb

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.
- Maurice Gibb

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
- Debbie Gibson

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
- Alma Gluck

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
- Lesley Gore

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
- Kelsey Grammer

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.
- Sylvia Plath

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.
- Josh Groban

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
- Charlie Haden

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
- William Hague

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
- Eddie Van Halen

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
- Eddie Van Halen

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
- Marvin Hamlisch

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.
- Marvin Hamlisch

I'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, "Black," it was like I was there, in that moment all over again.
After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band.
- Jenny Han

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.
- Ronald Harwood

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
- John C Hawkes

A gentle, quiet young man who might sit languid at her feet and read his verses to her or who might paint or draw her portrait. He would hold her hand and whisper how beautiful she was, how precious to him. Of course you mustn't play the pianoforte, he would say. Only silly females who have no higher accomplishments squander their strength on such an empty pastime. Dancing? No, that is far too fatiguing. May I sit beside you and fan you while you read?
- Ann Herendeen

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.
- Tobe Hooper

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
- Bob Hope

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.
- Bruce Hornsby

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
- Alan Hovhaness

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.
- Jerry Hunt

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
- Isabelle Huppert

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

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
- Billy Joel

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!
- Elton John

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
- Adam Johnson

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
- Boris Johnson

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
- James Weldon Johnson

If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose.
- Jarod Kintz

If love played an instrument, I'll bet it would be the piano. 88 keys, double infinity, and the ability to chop down trees with a sharpened mustache.
- Jarod Kintz

I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Record's for something ridiculous like juggling poison-tipped porcupines, playing the piano blindfolded while tightrope walking in tights, or throwing a rubber ball in a circular rim adorned with a dangling white nylon net.
- Jarod Kintz

A zebra is the piano of the animal kingdom. And I am the flute at the nudist colony, if you know what I mean.
- Jarod Kintz

He squints at the screen. "So, would you call yourself a... hmmm, that doesn't sound appropriate... a 'nasty come hungry bottom dumpster bitch'?"
I wish life was more like cartoons and a piano would fall on him and his teeth would become the piano keys as stars circled his head.
- Tj Klune

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
- Liza Minnelli

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
- Steve Lacy

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.
- Miranda Leek

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.
- Miranda Leek

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
- Miranda Leek

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
- Gyorgy Legeti

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
- Michel Legrand

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
- Yoko Ono

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
- Jerry Lee Lewis

I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theature fused together.
- E Lockhart

This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
- Maud Hart Lovelace

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
- Vanessa Mae

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
- Aimee Mann

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
- Branford Marsalis

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
- Richard Marx

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
- Page Mcconnell

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
- Bobby Mcferrin

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
- Marian Mcpartland

It's difficult to focus on my studies when my best friend is struggling to get through the hour."
He hesitated. "So I'm your best friend now?"
My cheeks heated, and I shrugged. "It was between you and Sarit, and you have the piano. She just has honey.
- Jodi Meadows

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
- Jayne Meadows

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

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
- Kenneth Miller

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
- Kenneth Miller

The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out.
- Eve Marie Mont

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.
- Roger Moore

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
- Gerry Mulligan

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
- John Forbes Nash Jr

I closed my eyes and the roof was gone. I could see the stars while the piano tinkled. I could see Jupiter and it was blue, and Neptune was silver like a tennis ball sprayed silver. I could reach out and touch it, like cold water.
- Heather O Neill

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
- Gary Oldman

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.
- Trey Parker

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
- Robert Pattinson

She watched him in the glow of the lamplight, his broad shoulders hunched over the piano, his hair flopping over his face, and knew she couldn't fight her feelings for him any longer. Denying him wasn't going to make them go away. And looking at him right at this moment, she didn't want them to.
- Alexandra Potter

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
- Lisa Marie Presley

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
- Billy Preston

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
- Louis Prima

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?
- Amy Tan

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
- Ruggiero Ricci

She had already turned. She watched him in amazement as he made his way slowly across the lawn and into the house. Pandora stepped back for him, and we all watched in respectful silence as he sat down near the piano, his back to the front right leg of it, and his knees brought up and his head resting wearily on his folded arms. He closed his eyes.
"Sybelle," I asked, "would you play it for him? The Appassionata, again, if you would."
And of course, she did.
- Anne Rice

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano..
- Yannis Ritsos

Good evening, Mrs. Grey," Christian says softly. He's standing by the piano, dressed in a tight black T-shirt, and jeans...those jeans- the ones he wore in the playroom. Oh my. They are over washed pale-blue denim, snug, ripped at the knee and hot. He saunters over to me, his feet bare, the top button of the jeans undone, his smoldering eyes never leaving mine. "Good to have you home. I've been waiting for you.
- James E Rogers

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
- Geoffrey Rush

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.
- Robert Schumann

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
- Andres Segovia

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
- Fiona Shaw

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
- George Shearing

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.
- George Shearing

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
- Mike Shinoda

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.
- Mike Shinoda

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.
- Kiernan Shipka

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
- John Stamos

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
- Billy Strayhorn

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
- Cecil Taylor

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
- Mick Taylor

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
- Mick Taylor

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
- Kiana Tom

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
- Lynne Truss

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
- Alicia Vikander

The piano has been drinking, not me.
- Tom Waits

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)
- Tom Waits

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
- Charlie Watts

Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.
- Frederick Weisel

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.
- Rebecca West

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
- Paul Westerberg

Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.
- Edith Wharton

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
- James Whistler

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'
- Mary Lou Williams

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
- Yanni

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
- Warren Zevon