Diana Krall Quotes

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

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

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

I wanted to play the piano.

You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.