Quotes About Piano

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

Rather than asking at the start how virtues relate to rules, principles, maximizing, or a final end, we will gain by looking at the way in which the acquisition and exercise of virtue can be seen to be in many ways like the acquisition and exercise of more mundane activities, such as farming, building, or playing the piano.

Renk klavye, gözler tokmaklar, ruh ise piyanodur. Sanatç? da piyanoyu çalan eldir. Tu?lara dokunarak ruhta titre?imler yarat?r.

I demand wisdom from my fingers: at least they must sound human, and not like spoons and forks! The piano, however, is not a human being. It lies halfway between a friend and a rock. More responsive than a rock. More predictable than a friend.

good piano tuner must have knowledge not only of his instrument but of "Physics, Philosophy, and Poetics," so that Edgar, although he never attended university, reached his twentieth birthday with more education than many who had.

For he – and this is truly what Central European writers do – drags around a terrible burden of linguistic and musical melodies; he hauls a piano and a dead horse behind him, along with everything that has been played on that piano and everything that the horse once bore into battle and to defeat – marble statues and bronze bearded busts, pictures in baroque frames, words and melodies that nobody can understand outside that language.

Born into prosperity, the two sisters were inseparable; they traveled widely in pursuit of culture, and in the early 1840s they settled for a time in Paris, where Jane took piano lessons from the English pianist Lindsay Sloper, who was himself a pupil of Chopin's.

But it is in the variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni that the seventeen-year-old's mastery of the keyboard stands revealed. The work probably started out as an end-of-term assignment, set by Elsner in the early summer of 1827 to encourage his protégé to try his hand at a large-scale piece for piano and orchestra.

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.

'Andhadhun' is the most challenging film and character. For playing the role, first and foremost I had to learn how to play the piano and then how to emulate gestures of a blind pianist.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.