Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alicia Witt

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

Alicia Keys

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

Ann Voskamp

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

Alber Elbaz

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

T. D. Jakes

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

Tom Waits

I really like your playing

Stephen Sondheim

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.

Tommy Bolin

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

Tom Verlaine

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Ronald Harwood

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

Victor Borge

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

Victor Borge

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Victor Borge

(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

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

Taylor Swift

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Steven Price

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

Randy Newman

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Nina Simone

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

Thelonious Monk

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Michael Storm

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

Matthew Shipp

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Morton Gould

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 Feldman

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

Mose Allison

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

Penn Jillette

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

Peg Bracken

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

Norah Jones

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

Miranda Kerr

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Gary Vaynerchuk

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Henry Miller

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.