Piano Quotes

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

Sister, Expression, Annoying

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Play, After

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Keith Richards

Mean, Give, Bored

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

President, House, United

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Time, Place

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Paul McCartney

Down, Happen, Trying

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

Life, Play, Depends

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Lady Gaga

Time, Lonely, Leave

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

Work, Mine, Heathen

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady Gaga

Strange, Kid, Sit

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Alanis Morissette

Music, Writing, Through

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

Play, Top, Grammys

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Jon Bon Jovi

Love, Art, Experience

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope

Down, Play, Off

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

Public, Poke, Keys

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
Tori Amos

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
Tori Amos

Time, After, Young

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Good, Before, Play

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
Robert Pattinson

Thought, Play, Old

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

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James Whistler

Nature, May, She

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.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Time, Everything, Play

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica McKellar

Music, Time, Good

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Passion, Everything

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

Boxing, Books, Kid

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion

Power, Play, Grammar

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
Norah Jones

Best, Learned, College

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Career, Happen, Kid

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.

Dad, Mother, Play

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

Sometimes, Able, Singing

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