Piano Quotes - Page 15

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

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

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

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

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

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

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines.

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

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

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

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

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

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.