Piano Quotes - page 14

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. (Alice Coltrane)
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff. View quote
Aaron Levie
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. View quote
Abbie Cornish
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study. View quote
Alma Gluck
In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds. View quote
Andrew Dost
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life. View quote
Audra McDonald
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices. View quote
Agnes Obel
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears. View quote
Agnes Obel
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. View quote
Al Capp
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working. View quote
Alaina Huffman
If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth. (Bill Bruford)
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you. View quote
Billy Eckstine
The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him. View quote
Billy Preston
It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano. That was the main thing. View quote
Birdy
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. View quote
Blake McIver Ewing
I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing. View quote
Blake Michael
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going. View quote
Bruce Forsyth
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs. View quote
Burton Cummings
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.' View quote
Bebe Neuwirth
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting. View quote
Caio Fonseca
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. (Caio Fonseca)
I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do! View quote
Charles Hazlewood
A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording. View quote
Charles Petzold
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. View quote
Charlie Haden
I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely. View quote
Cherry Jones