Frederic Chopin Quotes

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

Rachmaninov's hands were big. My hands are small. But only hands small.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.

Piano is one of those instruments you don't have to be good at to sound good - you just have to know where to put three little fingers, which is really pretty easy to figure out.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

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.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.