Piano Quotes - Page 10

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

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.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

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

Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

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?

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!

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.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

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.

Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

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