Quotes About Piano

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

My place in London is very small, so a piano would take up a third of the room. I leave home in the morning when I'm there and go to my studio. I close the door, and it's soundproof. There's no phone or TV or computer, and I can work uninterruptedly. That has been a huge advantage over the years.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.