Piano Improvisation Quotes

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

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

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

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

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

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

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

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

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.

I play any piano with a good tune.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

I play piano every day.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.

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.

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!

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

I play the piano and write music.

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

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.