Living At C Level

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

When you play, never mind who listens to you. - Robert Schumann

Play always as if in the presence of a master. - Robert Schumann

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

A single note is enough to ruin the entire composition. - Shihab Kazi

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung