I wouldn’t be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino. – Hugh Laurie
Eliminating the piano means that I’ve always worked closer with the bass than most players. – Gerry Mulligan
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. – George Shearing
If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. – Harry S Truman
Piano was – well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. – Hugh Laurie
If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It’s in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. You have to figure it out. – Itzhak Perlman
I don’t come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old. – Jason Robert Brown
I had this spooky psychological thing about ‘The Piano’ before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave. – Jane Campion
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that. – John Tesh
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that. – Bonnie McKee
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that’s your basis. Everything is right there in front of you. – Billy Eckstine
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines. – Ben Gibbard
When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter’s way in a compositional way, there’s a certain arc to that that I love. – Chick Corea
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. – Boz Scaggs
We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let’s say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It’s actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid. – Aleksey Igudesman
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study. – Alma Gluck
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that. – Alexis Dziena
I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute. – Abigail Washburn