#piano

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. ↗

— Kevin Kline

#away #cole #doing #drag #famous

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#all day #alone #already #behind #boring

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#hell #i #piano #playing

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bar #five #hired #i #later

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players. ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#i #nervous #piano #players #shooting

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#his #mention #mozart #music #opera

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#easily #factor #following #know #makes

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

#down #guitar #happen #just #make

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#i #kid #little #little bit #piano

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#awfully #baldwin #bankrupt #bit #bought