Quotes About Piano

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

John Cleese... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

There was a grand piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. He was a little drunk; the Chopin was slurred and fluid, the notes melting sleepily into one another. A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair.

La infatigable búsqueda de una perfección inalcanzable, así se trate sólo de aporrear un viejo piano, es lo que por sí mismo da sentido a nuestra vida en esta vana estrella.» Logan Pearsall Smith.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

the modern relationship between software and hardware is essentially the same as that between music and the instrument or voice that brings it to life. A single computer can transform itself into the cockpit of a fighter jet, a budget projection, a chapter of a novel, or whatever else you want, just as a single piano can be used to play Bach or funky blues.

Shostakovich and another composer banged out trashy songs on the piano while people danced in the corridor.

Heather moved her fingers all the while they were walking, as if she were unconsciously playing a piano or an organ.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano.

It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play.

How will this affect my piano playing?" and he said, "Don't worry, you'll still be able to play the piano," and I said, "Wow! I wasn't able to before!" And then they gassed me.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Life like piano, white keys are happy moments. Black keys are sad moments but remember both keys are played together to give sweet music...

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.