Piano Quotes

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. (Frédéric Chopin)
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. View quote
Bill Shankly
Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
The piano ain't got no wrong notes. View quote
Thelonious Monk
The piano has been drinking, not me. View quote
Tom Waits
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good. View quote
Jerry Lee Lewis
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. View quote
Ani DiFranco
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. View quote
Bob Hope
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. View quote
Branford Marsalis
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. (Colin Greenwood)
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. View quote
Caroline Corr
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. View quote
Fiona Shaw
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. View quote
Leo Kottke
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. View quote
Marian McPartland
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. View quote
Matthew Sweet
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. View quote
Mike Figgis
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. View quote
Neville Marriner
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. View quote
Oscar Peterson
I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs. View quote
Richard Marx
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. (Teena Marie)
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. View quote
Harry S. Truman
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. View quote
Alicia Keys
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos... in this respect this is a savage country. View quote
Frédéric Chopin