Quotes About Piano

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.