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Quotes About Piano

El calendario de la fama Adiós, adiós, mis amadas manos dijo Rachmaninov en su lecho de muerte y Joseph Hofmann, el gran pianista, inventó el limpiaparabrisas de observar su metrónomo Genio que soy, que lo único que puedo hacer es marcar las teclas equivocadas en mi máquina de escribir
~ James Laughlin
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
~ Nadia Ali
I chose 'Time' by Hans Zimmer because it's very melodic, and the way it progresses throughout the track is very unique. I am personally a very big fan of piano melodies, and to me, 'Time' is just perfect.
~ Alan Walker
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
~ Harry S Truman
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
~ Eddie Van Halen
I was a piano major with Craig Robinson from 'The Office.' Me and Craig were very close in college at Illinois State University... It's so bizarre to see us out here now doing things.
~ Sean Hayes
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
~ Eudora Welty
I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
~ Robert Redford
Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.
~ Tarja Turunen
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
~ Michelle Phillips
My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.
~ Borns
They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.
~ Thomas Kelley
I don't want Jeremy Clarkson anywhere near my shed or my toolbox or my piano. He's interested in fashionable restaurants and celebrity gossip - I'm not interested in those.
~ James May
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
~ John Carpenter
I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!
~ Artur Schnabel
I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.
~ Natalie Prass
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
~ Oscar Wilde
them. A fire crackled in one corner, and a grand piano
~ Hampton Sides
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
~ Harry Connick Jr.
My early choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
~ Harry S. Truman
My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!
~ Harry S. Truman
Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the piano.
~ Jan Moran
Ernest Goss fell backward into the piano again, fortissmo. He regained his balance with an E-flat chord and lunged at Teddy.
~ Jane Langton
Like the piano player, I have memory in my fingertips. I watch words spill out creating worlds, inventing colors, bridging generations.
~ Jane Yolen