Piano Quotes

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

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

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

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

I'm very fond of piano players.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

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

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I'd like to be a piano player.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

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