Piano Playing Quotations

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.