Piano Technique Quotes

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

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

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

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

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they bought me a toy piano and eventually an upright piano, and I started lessons.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Piano is one of those instruments you don't have to be good at to sound good - you just have to know where to put three little fingers, which is really pretty easy to figure out.

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.

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

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

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

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