List Of Piano Quotes

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.

It Seems That A Lot Of People, Who Haven't Known Of Me As A Pianist, Think I've Just Started Off As A Comedian. And So For Them The Piano Was Something Extra. But, Of Course, Playing The Piano Was Something That Came Before All Of What's Happened Now.

Eliminating The Piano Means That I've Always Worked Closer With The Bass Than Most Players.

On Television I Feel Like A Man Playing Piano In A Brothel; Every Now And Again He Solaces Himself By Playing 'abide With Me' In The Hope Of Edifying Both The Clients And The Inmates

It Is My Aim, My Destination In Life To Make The Cello As Beloved An Instrument As The Violin And Piano.

How Wonderful Opera Would Be If There Were No Singers.

Love Is Like Playing The Piano. First You Must Learn To Play By The Rules, Then You Must Forget The Rules And Play From Your Heart. If I Were Pressed To Say Why I Loved Him, I Feel That My Only Reply Could Be: Because It Was He, Because It Was I.

A Piano Might Fall On Your Head, He Said, But It Also Might Not. And In The Meantime You Never Know. Something Nice Might Happen.

Joyous Sound Evolved From A Gospel Influence. Actually It Evolved Out Of Sitting At A Piano And Just Picking Out A Riff, A Gospel Type Riff. It Just Seemed To Come Joyously-something About The Song, About Living In Another Place Of Joyous Sounds. I'm Not Quite Sure-that's One I'm Trying To Analyze. It Just Came Out.

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.

Thus, Be It Understood, To Demonstrate A Theorem, It Is Neither Necessary Nor Even Advantageous To Know What It Means. The Geometer Might Be Replaced By The "logic Piano" Imagined By Stanley Jevons; Or, If You Choose, A Machine Might Be Imagined Where The Assumptions Were Put In At One End, While The Theorems Came Out At The Other, Like The Legendary Chicago Machine Where The Pigs Go In Alive And Come Out Transformed Into Hams And Sausages. No More Than These Machines Need The Mathematician Know What He Does.

I Met My Wife When We Were Both 19 Or 20, At A Music School Where She Was Taking Voice And Piano Lessons And I Was Doing Classes In Music Theory And Composition.