Piano Quotes - Page 15

• I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

  Hugh Laurie

  Play, Drs, Able

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• If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  History, Hell, Ifs

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• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fall, Taken, Two

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• I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Ray Manzarek

  Player, Thinking, Poor

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• I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Ray Manzarek

  Player, Thinking, People

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• Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Opera, Violin

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

  Wynton Marsalis

  Play, Tubas, Horns

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• My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

  Danica McKellar

  Baby, Children, Husband

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• I play piano every day.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Play

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Play, People

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• 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.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Expression, Dancing

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• It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

  Gary Oldman

  Funny, Play, Musician

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• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Home, Play

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Inspiration, Play

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• I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Holiday, Glasses

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

  Little Richard

  Good Times, Banging

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• I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

  Kid Rock

  Hotel Lobby, Imagine, Paid

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Feb 22, 2013

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• I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

  Mike Shinoda

  Years, Keyboards, Parks

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

  Mike Shinoda

  Homework, Hated

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• I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

  Mike Shinoda

  Running, Brother, Silly

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Artist

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• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  Ringo Starr

  Guitar, Practice, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

  Alan Sugar

  Teacher, Years, Locks

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• I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Looks

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