Quotes of: Piano-player Keyword

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

Steven Holl

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Joanna Newsom

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

Tim Curry

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

Eric Stoltz

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

Jools Holland

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Malcolm Gladwell

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

Lionel Hampton

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

Frederic Chopin

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

Gavin DeGraw

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

Condola Rashad

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Joan Armatrading

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Elton John

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

Billy Eckstine

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Barry Mann

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

Caroline Corr

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Christopher Cross