The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind. — Maria Cristina Mena
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know — Vladimir Horowitz
Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want. — George Gershwin
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. — Kenneth R. Miller
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. — Kenneth Miller
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. — Kenneth R. Miller
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. — Tom Lehrer
It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony. — Benny Goodman
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors — Frank O'Hara
Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs. — Andrea Gibson
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. — Theodore E. Steinway
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. — Richard M. Nixon
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you — Frederic Chopin
I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well. — Marian McPartland
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. — Cecil Taylor
I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player. — Matt Sharp
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. — Jelly Roll Morton
If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. — Jerry Lee Lewis
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole — Keith Richards
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky
Piano Keys Image Quotes
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Playing Piano Quotes
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! — Frederic Chopin
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. — Norman Wisdom
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards. — Vladimir Horowitz
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. — Bob Hope
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! — George Clooney
If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved. — Future
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. — Frederic Chopin
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. — Frederic Chopin
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music. — Nino Rota
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right. — Duke Ellington
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
When you play, never mind who listens to you. — Robert Schumann
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. — Josh Groban
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 Legeti
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. — Igor Stravinsky
Pianist Quotes
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. — Frederic Chopin
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. — John Towner Williams
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. — Glenn Gould
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak. — Alexander Scriabin
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work. — Michel Petrucciani
I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing. — Kerry Washington
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family. — John Kander
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley
Piano Lesson Quotes
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band. — Chris Daughtry
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' — Oscar Wilde
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. — Robert B. Laughlin
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. — Gyorgy Legeti
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. — Woody Allen
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
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies. — Elle Fanning
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to. — Geddy Lee
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. — Madonna Ciccone
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 hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. — Marvin Gaye
I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I foundmyself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came intomy head - they just seemed to fall into place. — Thomas A. Dorsey
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins
Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano. — Darryl F. Zanuck
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. — Al Capp
In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key. — Wassily Kandinsky
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost. — Anton Chekhov
In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful. — Miranda Leek
My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano. — Christian Louboutin
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black. — Ansel Adams
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. — Ambrose Bierce
I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again. — Melvin Van Peebles
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. — Alicia Keys
Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake? — Cassandra Clare
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude. — Tod Machover
The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing. — Richard Clayderman
The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow) — Victor Borge
Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys. — Andrea Gibson
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself? — Dolora Zajick
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist. — Sandra Steingraber
very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys. — Cynthia Ozick
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful. — Anna Quindlen
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds. — Andrew W.K.
You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me. — Katy B
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine. — Barbara Johnson
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
Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? — Cassandra Clare
Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys. — Cassandra Clare
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late. — David Mitchell
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. — Gustave Flaubert
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