Quotes by Piano God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music. Amy Williams piano singing soul When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany. Andrea Bocelli piano teenager land I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice. Andrea Bocelli piano voice girl Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs. Andrea Gibson ribs piano keys Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys. Andrea Gibson ribs piano keys The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. Andres Segovia piano music monsters I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing. Andrew Hill piano music writing As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album, read the lyrics, and just spend hours and hours in there. Plus, my sister Laurie played piano (in fact she taught me my first few notes) so music was always around one way or another. Andrew Hollander piano listening kids I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano. Andrew Lloyd Webber piano writing thinking The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons. Andrew W.K. influential piano lessons 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. piano keys moving Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ani DiFranco piano music love I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. Ann Voskamp piano practice want 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 piano discovery children The family story tells, and it was told true, Anne Sexton piano eight children Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano. Anthony Davis hearing piano believe We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active. Anthony Hopkins piano play brain I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative. Anthony Hopkins piano creative play I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers. Anthony Hopkins piano play writing 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 piano drawing music «1234567891011»