“ The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It's not safe, but yeah, I can flip a piano over. You take it on this side where there's not really as much weight. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 3.9K
“ So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh birthday my parents got me a piano. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 3K
“ One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. ”
- Lucille Kallen- Copy
- 2.9K
“ As long as they gimme a piano I'll be out there. They try to take that away, I'm gonna kick some ass. ”
- Jerry Lee Lewis- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch. ”
- Jerry Lee Lewis- Copy
- 387
“ Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ”
- Michael Levine- Copy
- 288
“ It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. ”
- Frederick Loewe- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. ”
- Kenneth Miller- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter. ”
- Charles Phillips- Copy
- 757
“ The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 311
“ Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
- 4K
“ I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ”
- Michael Levine- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. ”
- Tom Lehrer- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.6K
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