Piano Music Quotes

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

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

I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

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

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

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.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.

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.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

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.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.