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.
Morton Gould

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
Billy Preston

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.
Richard Fleeshman

The piano has been drinking, not me.
Tom Waits

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Andres Segovia

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
Kenneth Miller

The piano is kind of my second instrument.
Bill Bruford

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
Branford Marsalis

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

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

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

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

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
George Shearing

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
Mose Allison

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.
Eric San

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.
Keith Emerson

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

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Cecil Taylor

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

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Tennessee Ernie Ford