Quotes About Piano

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

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.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.