Piano Accompaniment Quotes

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

As a producer, when I'm trying to make something soft, I start with a slow tempo. Then after that, it would be straight to acoustic guitar and vocals, or I'm going to go strings and just piano.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere in there, I decided to book myself a room and do a cabaret show of my own material.

I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

I play any piano with a good tune.

Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as well, just because I love playing. There's pieces where I want to grab an instrument and play with the rest of the group, like 'The Light of the Seven,' for example; I would love to play the piano for that.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Horowitz, and Art Tatum. Those are the pianists I really enjoy and admire.

No, I never sing in the bath. In fact, I've never even practised singing. I would only ever sing indoors if I had to learn a song with my pianist.

I don't like piano solos.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

I do have a way of playing piano where it's very melodic and emotional, but then often it's great if whoever's singing doesn't sing exactly what's in the piano melody, but maybe it's connected in some way.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I want to play piano. My girlfriend loves the piano.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.