Piano Quotes - page 22

A utopia or heaven on earth is a place where every would-be Mozart has access to a piano and violin before the age of five, where every would-be Beethoven is empowered to compose music in spite of deafness, where every individual can get quality education regardless of their socioeconomic status and place of residence, and where everyone is given good health and freedom to pursue their dreams. (Newton Lee)
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus
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. View quote
Dolly Parton
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. View quote
Boris Johnson
Where is the Mississippi panorama And the girl who played the piano? Where are you, Walt? The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. View quote
Louis Simpson
Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part? View quote
Dannii Minogue
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. View quote
Mike Shinoda
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. (Mike Shinoda)
I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it. View quote
Mike Shinoda
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid. View quote
Mike Shinoda
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing. View quote
Vladimir Horowitz
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. View quote
Tori Amos
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. View quote
Tori Amos
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. View quote
Tori Amos
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. (Tori Amos)
Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged. View quote
Billy Joel
I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. View quote
Kristin Kreuk
I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. View quote
Lady Gaga
Oh, son, I wish you hadn't become a scenario writer!" she sniffled. "Aw, now, Moms," I comforted her, "it's no worse than playing the piano in a call house. View quote
S. J. Perelman