Piano Quotes - Page 13

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Piano is like drudgery.

I don't like piano solos.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

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.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

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.

It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!

Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

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

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

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

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

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

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.