Piano Mastery Quotes

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.

The thing is, I'm not really a great pianist at all. But if God said I could either sing or play piano, and which would it be? I would definitely choose the piano.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.