Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself..

Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone w….

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws ….

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore..

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three..

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany..

In opera, there is always too much singing..

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano..

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery..

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.

It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine ….

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets,….

Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arg….

Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right..

Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans….

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just st….

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not sh….

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was st….

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six year….

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing..

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track..