Piano Composition Quotes

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

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

I wanted to play the piano.

I play any piano with a good tune.

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.

Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

I play piano every day.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.'

I don't like piano solos.

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.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

The way it always starts with me making my music is I will never, ever start with the production first. It's always me at the piano, fresh on the day. I never come with anything prepared.

Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.

Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

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