Quotes About Piano

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

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.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

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

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

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 always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.