Zebra Keyboard

Up there in his ivory shower - Archie Bunker

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

The tiger, he come up with the tigeress. The lion, he come up with the lionette. The zebra, he come up with the zeberelle. - Archie Bunker

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 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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins