574 Piano Quotes for You to Enjoy

I play piano every day. I enjoy that. Frank Ocean

Day Every Day Enjoy Every Piano Play

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. Frank Sinatra

Father Would Piano Had Put Roller Nickel Play Nickelodeon

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying? Future

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past. GRiZ

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Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. GRiZ

First Piano Most Instrument Proficiency

I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it. Gabrielle Aplin

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When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever. Garry Marshall

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. Gary Oldman

Music Classical Classical Music Piano Obsessed Got Chopin Playing

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do. George Shearing

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Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. Gerry Mulligan

Bass Piano Most Always Than Closer Worked Means Players

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned. Glenn Gould

Must Fingers Piano Idea Much Playing

Apart from my work, my greatest pleasures have been mainly out-of-doors, and although I no longer ski, I greatly enjoy walking in the mountains and leading country rambles. I am fond of music, whether light or classical, and play the piano in a self-taught way. In company, I enjoy lively, way-out discussions. Godfrey Hounsfield

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My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else. Grace Potter

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I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano. Grace VanderWaal

Saxophone Piano Used Play

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone. Gregg Allman

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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I get nervous when they start shooting piano players. Harry Nilsson

Nervous Piano Get Shooting Start Players

When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano. Herbie Hancock

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