Piano Quotes - Page 19

• Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

  Luc Ferrari

  Teacher, Stupid, Dumb

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• He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

  Matthew Sweet

  Couple, Play, Two

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• Sing us a song you're the piano man.
  Sing us a song tonight.
  Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,
  And you've got us feeling all right.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Men, Feelings

  "The Piano Man" (song) (1973)

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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• The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Skeletons, Lunch

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

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• It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

  Diane Cilento

  Grandmother, Different, Would Be

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• Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

  James Huneker

  Music, Brandy, Piano Music

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• There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Music, Drawing, Rooms

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.23

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• It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Beautiful, Wedding, Believe

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Musical

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

  Victor Borge

  Elephants, White, Too Much

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

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Play, Knees

  "Laughter Was at the Heart of Victor Borge's Many Talents". "The Boston Globe" Newspaper, December 29, 2000.

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• Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

  Brendon Urie

  Imagine, Make You Happy, Minors

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• When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

  Otis Blackwell

  Song, Writing, Down And

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• Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

  Margot Robbie

  Play, Urges

  "Margot Robbie profile: Quotes, photos, videos and selected filmography of BAFTA nominee" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. January 30, 2015.

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• I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

  Scott Disick

  Nice, Play, Looks

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• It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

  Linda Lavin

  Dream, Quiet People, Dancing

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Notes Music, Notes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.493, Wordsworth Editions

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• Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Ribs, Sheets

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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

  Condola Rashad

  School, Kids, Track

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Musical

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• Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

  Jon Pareles

  Volcanoes, Play, Free Jazz

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• For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, School, Keys

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.170, Penguin

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• It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.

  Robert Schumann

  Running, Dream, Vision

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• Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You’ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

  Heather King

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

  Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press

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