Piano Quotes - Page 2

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

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

Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

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

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. I stop before I let myself drop something into a drawer or set it down on the piano. 'Where does it belong?' I think. If I don't have a place for it, I make a place.

A Composition on the Piano

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.