Quotes About Performance

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

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.

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 play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

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.

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.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

I'm very fond of piano players.

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.

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

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano.

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.