Profoundly inspirational piano quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Famous Piano Quotes
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. Frederic Chopin
The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind. Maria Cristina Mena
The piano ain’t got no wrong notes. Thelonious Monk
When you play, never mind who listens to you. Robert Schumann
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal, and vibrating air. Kenneth Miller
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city’s monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea. Nathan Reese Maher
The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind. Maria Cristina Mena
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom. E.M. Forster
Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It’s like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can’t be found on any instrument. That’s like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world. Nina Simone
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides. Artur Schnabel
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime, you never know. Something nice might happen. Meg Rosoff
I dreamt of you last night as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. Vladimir Nabokov
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, and the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. William Gaddis
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary. Robert Schumann
If I’m going to hell, I’m going there playing the piano. Jerry Lee Lewish
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. Bob Hope
Love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn how to play by the rules. Then you must forget the rules and you play from your heart.
I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets. piano teacher Eleanora Sivan. Anna Goldsworthy
The piano as a medium for expression is a whole world by itself. No other instrument can fill or replace its own say in the world of emotion, sentiment, poetry, imagery, and fancy. Leopold Godowsky
Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays. Francesca Lia Block
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, then starting on the first one. Mark Twain
Everybody told me this girl on the piano thing was never going to work. Tori Amos
I dreamt of you last night as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. Vladimir Nabokov
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Edith Sitwell
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. Gustave Flaubert
I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That’s why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a product. I want people to know that I’m not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it’s just about being myself on and off stage. Luis Fons
Listening to him play was like discovering an eagle in the wild. It was tumblingly bewitching. She could feel and hear genius she knew it. Debra Anastasia
The piano is a reasonably quiet instrument, and I suppose it’s quite strange to have it with such loud music. Barry Burns
Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is? he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note. Frederick Weisel
I never practice, I always play. Wansa Landowaska
I had been eight years old then. I had turned eighteen in January my years of performing for an audience were over. Marie Lu
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. Paul McCartney
Notes give me keys of expression. Anthony T. Hincks
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. Chopin
If I had a time machine, I would either go back and start playing the piano as a child, or I’d go back five years ago and talk myself out of trying to learn it again as an adult. John Scheck
Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays. Francesca Lia Block
There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain a piano. Marcel Proust
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Joan Didion
There is such longing in me for music. A closed piano is my biggest nightmare. Pallavi Sareen
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. Jon Bon Jovi
Alice laughed and picked out the top hand of Heart and Soul. I grinned and completed the simple harmony with her. Then I favored her with a performance of Chopsticks. Stephenie Meyer
The piano is the social instrument par excellence drawing room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown up in the name of entertainment. Jacques Barzun
When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me. Right hand playing notes sharp as tongues, telling stories while the smooth buttery rhythms back me up on the left. Karen Hesse
It’s like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. Dave Brubeck
My love for my grand piano is eternal. Sami Abouzid
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. Kelsey Grammer
Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist’s development. Tori Amos
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. Tom Lehrer
It is next to impossible to learn a complex skill by observation alone. One does not learn to play the violin by watching Heifitz or the piano by observing Rubenstein. David Elkind
Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also create music. Ehssan
The rich, deep sounds of the pipe organ seem to vibrate through my whole body, as the notes tumble out from under skillful fingers. Alex Dalton
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.
I demand wisdom from my fingers at least they must sound human, and not like spoons and forks! The piano, however, is not a human being. It lies halfway between a friend and a rock. More responsive than a rock. More predictable than a friend. Wayne Koestenbaum
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don’t mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. Eddie Van Halen
Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise well, nobody would ever learn the piano. Alexander McCall Smith
The piano has been drinking, not me. Tom Waits
Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and the black ones are sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called Life. Suzy Kassem
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars. Tori Amos
I have long convinced myself that the piano is like a drug, seductive and strong, and it can mess you up, it can awaken dead emotions, it can drown you in your lost selves. It is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen. Matt Haig
What has keys but can’t listen to the beauty it unlocks? A pianoJarod Kintz
Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist. Jeffrey Fry
Everybody told me this girl on the piano thing was never going to work. Tori Amos
There are eighty eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. James Rhodes
When you play, never mind who listens to you. Robert Schumann
Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. Xila Toro
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky
An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man! Mehmet Murat ildan
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. GustaveFlauber
After a few minutes, the lull of the piano joins in, and we play together. It’s the most magical thing I’ve ever experienced. Samantha Armstrong
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. Alicia Keys
You don’t have to be brave for me, Noelle, Gabe said quietly. Josie Riviera
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. Oscar Peterson
I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano. Gabriel García Márquez
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Michael Levine
You don’t have to be brave for me, Noelle, Gabe said quietly. Josie Riviera
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano’s expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. Kenneth Miller
There was something about her playing a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form. Marisha Pessl
The slower you go, the faster you’ll get there. John Link
Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better. TheBakaViolinist
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. Al Capp
I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life. Thad Carhart
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. Andre Segovia
You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul of the sound, comes from the spaces in between. David Mutti Clark
Over the piano was printed a notice Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. Oscar Wilde
Life’s like the piano and the violin, it’s about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony. Lucy Aisy
The piano has been drinking, not me. Tom Waits
Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead. Richelle E. Goodrich
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. Bill Shankly
The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys. Thad Carhart
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist? Steven Wright
Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences. Robert Schumann
