Piano Quotes - page 4

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. (Boz Scaggs)

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

Barbara Ann Scott

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.

Brian Austin Green

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

Bruce Hornsby

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Barry Mann

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

Chuck Mangione

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

Condola Rashad

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Condola Rashad

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. (Cy Coleman)

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

Carla Bley

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

Caroline Corr

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

Caroline Corr

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

Caroline Corr

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

Caroline Corr

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Carter Burwell

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Debby Boone

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

Debra Wilson

With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.

Dianna Agron

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. (Dick Dale)

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

Drake Bell

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

Elle Varner

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Etta James

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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