Quotes About Piano

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player's legs are likely to get entangled during performance. (When Swiss-American pianist Rudolph Ganz was asked to perform Bombardo-Carillon with a female pianist, he declined on the grounds that he didn't know her well enough.)

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic patterns on the piano. And so in my mind, when I was taking a solo, I would be saying the lyrics and trying to play actual notes to their rhythms. Now, the influence just comes in and out in my playing.

Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'

When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a '90s grunge side project; I have a piano project... I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary.

Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

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)

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Clara mochte schlecht spielen, nicht im Takt, und bei der Hälfte der Noten danebengreifen, für mich aber klang ihre Serenade wundervoll, und sie mit einem angedeuteten Lächeln und zur Seite geneigten Kopf aufrecht vor den Tasten sitzen zu sehen erschien mit wir eine Vision des Himmels.

Prepárate entonces para ella. Esto es un andante, pero no una pieza de salón según tú la has tocado. Empieza suavemente, piano , y no hagas el crescendo hasta llegar al arpegio. Hazlo cálido y dramático. Y aquí abajo, donde pone dolce , haz cantar a la melodía

I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere in there, I decided to book myself a room and do a cabaret show of my own material.

I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming up with song concepts for those melodies. I kind of write in a very traditional way '- how people have written since the early '40s.

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

Glenn had the good fortune of collapsing at his Steinway in the middle of the Goldberg Variations. [Wertheimer] claimed he'd been trying to collapse for years, without success.

He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he'd never seen one before.