Top Piano Quotes Collection

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Image of Victor Borge
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
- Victor Borge
Collection: Piano
Image of Victor Borge
The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
- Victor Borge
Collection: Piano
Image of Frank O'Hara
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
- Frank O'Hara
Collection: Piano
Image of Robert Schumann
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.
- Robert Schumann
Collection: Piano
Image of Renzo Piano
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
- Renzo Piano
Collection: Piano
Image of Regina Spektor
The piano is not firewood -- yet.
- Regina Spektor
Collection: Piano
Image of Joseph Haydn
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.
- Joseph Haydn
Collection: Piano
Image of Billy Taylor
Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.
- Billy Taylor
Collection: Piano
Image of Peg Bracken
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.
- Peg Bracken
Collection: Piano
Image of Buffy Sainte-Marie
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Collection: Piano
Image of Cecil Taylor
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
- Cecil Taylor
Collection: Piano
Image of Cecil Taylor
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
- Cecil Taylor
Collection: Piano
Image of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Collection: Piano
Image of Yoochun
I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.
- Yoochun
Collection: Piano
Image of Morton Feldman
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap
- Morton Feldman
Collection: Piano
Image of Rene Coty
It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.
- Rene Coty
Collection: Piano
Image of Walter Russell
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.
- Walter Russell
Collection: Piano
Image of Hans Zimmer
I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized that this was, you know, there was magic there, there was magic to be had, you could lose yourself in it, it was a refuge, it was joy, it was all of those things.
- Hans Zimmer
Collection: Piano
Image of Clement Mok
Remember the music is not in the piano.
- Clement Mok
Collection: Piano
Image of Oscar Peterson
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.
- Oscar Peterson
Collection: Piano
Image of Frederic Chopin
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you
- Frederic Chopin
Collection: Piano
Image of Allen Toussaint
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
- Allen Toussaint
Collection: Piano
Image of Jools Holland
Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
- Jools Holland
Collection: Piano
Image of Fritzie Zivic
I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know
- Fritzie Zivic
Collection: Piano
Image of Donal Henahan
Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
- Donal Henahan
Collection: Piano
Image of Maurizio Pollini
Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.
- Maurizio Pollini
Collection: Piano
Image of Mose Allison
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
- Mose Allison
Collection: Piano
Image of Hiromi
For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my piano with me like a bassist can take his instrument. So whenever I arrive I am a bit nervous to see what kind of piano is waiting for me.
- Hiromi
Collection: Piano
Image of Caio Fonseca
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
- Caio Fonseca
Collection: Piano
Image of Benny Carter
Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.
- Benny Carter
Collection: Piano
Image of Amy Williams
God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music.
- Amy Williams
Collection: Piano
Image of Aprilynne Pike
I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.
- Aprilynne Pike
Collection: Piano
Image of Brendon Urie
Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!
- Brendon Urie
Collection: Piano
Image of Anton Rubinstein
The pedal is the soul of the piano.
- Anton Rubinstein
Collection: Piano
Image of Shook
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.
- Shook
Collection: Piano
Image of Robert Glasper
Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
- Robert Glasper
Collection: Piano
Image of McCoy Tyner
The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.
- McCoy Tyner
Collection: Piano
Image of Morton Gould
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
Collection: Piano
Image of Tommy Bolin
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
- Tommy Bolin
Collection: Piano
Image of Christian McKay
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.
- Christian McKay
Collection: Piano
Image of Ashley Bryan
I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.
- Ashley Bryan
Collection: Piano
Image of Howard Shore
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
- Howard Shore
Collection: Piano
Image of Vladimir Horowitz
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
- Vladimir Horowitz
Collection: Piano
Image of Vladimir Horowitz
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know
- Vladimir Horowitz
Collection: Piano
Image of Jeanine Tesori
My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.
- Jeanine Tesori
Collection: Piano
Image of Richard Meale
I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.
- Richard Meale
Collection: Piano
Image of George Winston
I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.
- George Winston
Collection: Piano
Image of Rafal Blechacz
Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.
- Rafal Blechacz
Collection: Piano
Image of Max Richter
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.
- Max Richter
Collection: Piano
Image of Ahmad Jamal
I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.
- Ahmad Jamal
Collection: Piano