Quotes by Piano Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life. Dr. John piano party mother I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me. Drake Bell piano writing morning In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar. Dr. John piano guitar new-orleans It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now. Dudley Moore piano people thinking Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about? Douglas Adams sunset piano flower If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument. E-40 instruments piano play When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. E. W. Howe piano music people The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script. Ed Helms hangover piano song It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. E. M. Forster rebel piano world I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too. Eddie Redmayne piano play worry The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. Eddie Van Halen piano theory goes-on I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. Eddie Van Halen piano blessed teacher It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person. Eddie Izzard piano music talking Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form. Eckhart Tolle piano space two I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. Eddie Van Halen piano guitar age The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. Eddie Van Halen piano guitar mean I took classical piano lessons from the age of five. Eddie Van Halen piano music age I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Edith Sitwell women piano government Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton piano music soul Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. Eleanor Farjeon piano cat sleep «678910111213141516»