Quotes About Piano

She not only taught but lived music, existed for those hours when she could be concentrated in her being—which was half music, half divine light, only flesh to the degree she could not admit otherwise. At the piano keyboard, absorbed into the notes that rose beneath her hands, she existed in her essence, a manifestation of compelling sound.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)

I've never been in love, never in my life. Oh, I've dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night, but my soul is like a fine piano that's locked, and the key is lost.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

Ho una teoria… su Miss Honeychurch. Le sembra logico che suoni il pianoforte in modo così meraviglioso e faccia una vita tanto tranquilla? Credo che un giorno la sua vita sarà meravigliosa come il suo modo di suonare. I suoi compartimenti stagni si romperanno, e musica e vita si fonderanno l'una nell'altra.»

Pale fibrous clouds lay on the surface of the sky, which resembled a dark blue inverted bowl. The moon was a perfect white disk. In the window of the café, the men, tables, bottles, and a piano stood out as sharply as a scene in a movie. Some distance away, on the other side of the station entrance, stood a glowing phone booth.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented.

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my mother, saying, 'Go out and get some fresh air.' No, I wanted to play the piano all the time I could. I was completely obsessed.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

My brother and I played music together, and we all liked to show off. But I wasn't a particularly musical kid. I did piano lessons and quit. I got kicked out of the choir.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

I enrolled my daughter for piano lessons, but she quit after just two lessons, citing a lack of interest.

I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano.

The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.