Piano Quotes

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

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

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

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Piano is like drudgery.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

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

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

I don't like piano solos.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I'm not a great piano player.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.