I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

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

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

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

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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