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," D...

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. - Burt Bacharach That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer. - Morton Gould I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. - Alanis Morisette 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

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. - Burt Bacharach If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose. - Jarod Kintz To me, life is sad, like a piano with no pedals being played by a person with no fingers. - Jarod Kintz Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley. - James Thurber In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and t...

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 In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. - Norah Jones Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. - Jon Bon Jovi Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. - Matthew Shipp Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. - Igor Stravinsky

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. - Christopher Cross This was a pretty girl, except she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano.. - Kurt Vonnegut I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent. - Lady Gaga This core concept is so fundamental to her life that she even had a custom grand piano made where the keys aren't black and whitethey're green and red. As a side note, do you think it's a coincidence that Christmas' colors are red and green? Christmas, as the consumer holiday, is the epitome of that point where fear meets greed. December 25th is the high holy day of chaos. - Jarod Kintz The Gedalists were nearly run down by a Dodge truck on which two grand pianos had been loaded: two uniformed officers were playing, in unison, with gravity and commitment, the 1812 Overture of Tchaikowsky, while the driver wove among the wagons with brusque swerves, pressing the siren...