Quotes About Piano

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

Schubert Impromptus that Louise Bogan gave me—Opus 90 and Opus 142, Gieseking.

Tears began to fall on the notes Frieda

One piece had been titled "Expectant Silence" and consisted of a man sitting at the piano, playing nothing.

Humans with perfect reception can hear frequencies between 20 wave cycles per second, or 20 Hz, at the low end to 20,000 Hz at the high end. The lowest note on a typical piano is 27.5 Hz, and the highest is about 4,186 Hz. Nonhuman animals have evolved different ranges of hearing, the widest

The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the only time that I was forced to perform music, because I had piano recitals, and my school also had mandatory music classes that had some performing required.

My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.'

I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.

I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar and piano.

We humans have territories too. Ours are psychological. Stevie Wonder's territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger's is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he's on his territory. When I sit down to write, I'm on mine.

It is like the making of music. It is as simple as that. All the notes on a piano, for example, already exist. But music is discovered through the piano, but no new notes are discovered.

Are you taking piano lessons?" Alice asked Ruby. "No," said Ruby. "I don't know how to play." "Well, this is a fine instrument. It's not a toy." "Then why is it called playing?

That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise. "It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano. "A charming image," Honoria remarked. "I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I don't think it would sound like—

It has no piano part," Honoria reminded her. "I have no objection," Sarah said quickly. From behind the piano.

Richard looked in horror at the piano. "Oh, no," Iris quickly assured him. "There will be no music. At least not that I know of. It's not a concert." Still, Richard's eyes widened with panic. Where was Winston and his little balls of cotton when he needed him? "You're frightening me, Miss Smythe-Smith.

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.