Piano Quotes - Page 16

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

When I was 14 I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.

I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.