Quotes by Piano You bang that piano real nice. Albert Collins piano nice real The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. Albie Sachs relief piano music We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon. Aleksandar Hemon piano sky fall Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically. Alexa Ray Joel piano giving thinking I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano. Alfred Brendel piano want mean One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. Alfred Doblin piano daughter father I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. Alfred Hitchcock audience piano enjoy The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson piano music cities The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles. Alfred Stieglitz piano miracle waiting The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within. Alice Coltrane piano soul heart When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one. Alicia Keys piano new-york kids When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. Alicia Keys piano music mother I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too. Alicia Keys piano Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound. Alicia Witt piano get-better play You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both. Alicia Witt piano acting I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. Alicia Witt piano competition support I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio. Allen Toussaint forte piano performers In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study. Alma Gluck piano voice study I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque. Amos Oz piano literature trying And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope? Amy Tan betrayal piano years «1234567891011»