Piano Quotes - page 23

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. (James McNeill Whistler)
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch. View quote
Gerard Way
I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion. View quote
Ottessa Moshfegh
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. View quote
Burt Bacharach
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. View quote
Vanessa Mae
One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind. View quote
Glenn Gould
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. View quote
Josh Groban
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. View quote
PJ Harvey
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. View quote
Joanna Newsom
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. View quote
Yanni
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope? (Amy Tan)
What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?” "A piano.” "Simon.” "A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon? View quote
Cassandra Clare
Jace Herondale plays the piano very well.” "And he knows it.” "That sounds like a Herondale.” Tessa laughed. View quote
Cassandra Clare
You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both. View quote
Alicia Witt
I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. View quote
Alicia Witt
I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. View quote
Aimee Mann
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. View quote
Woody Allen
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. View quote
Jon Bon Jovi
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. View quote
Paul McCartney
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. View quote
Joan Armatrading
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play. (Ringo Starr)
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world. View quote
Alan Lightman
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. View quote
Joan Didion
I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play. View quote
Taylor Swift
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. View quote
David Mamet