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Piano Playing Quotes (page 2)

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money. Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so) Tom Waits
It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole’s problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of late that it seemed to belittle his work. Also, for the purpose of her cure, he had for many years pretended to a rigid domesticity from which he was drifting away, and the pretence became more arduous in this effortless immobility, in which he was inevitably subjected to microscopic examination. When Dick could no longer play what he wanted to play on the piano, it was an... F. Scott Fitzgerald
I looked. George Shearing. And as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer's-night use. Then they urged him to get up and play. He did. He played innumerable choruses with amazing chords that mounted higher and higher till the sweat splashed all over the piano and everybody listened in awe and fright. They led him off the stand after an hour. He went back to... Jack Kerouac
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. Luc Ferrari
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well. Kat Dennings
Gavin DeGraw quote: "My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I..."
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it. Gavin DeGraw
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. Louis Prima
See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot. John Fahey
Bobby McFerrin quote: "I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit."
I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit. Bobby McFerrin
I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them. Page McConnell
John Mayall quote: "I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there,..."
I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. John Mayall
Matt Damon quote: "For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I..."
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. Matt Damon
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. Kip Winger
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. August Wilson
Caroline Corr quote: "I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some..."
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. Caroline Corr

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