Happy Birthday Bartolomeo Cristofori!

The piano keys are black and white, but they sound like a million colours in your mind.
Katie Melua 

Klavierspiel besteht aus Vernunft, Herz und technischen Mitteln. Alles sollte gleichermaßen entwickelt sein. Ohne Vernunft sind Sie ein Fiasko, ohne Technik ein Amateur, ohne Herz eine Maschine.
Vladimir Horowitz

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Marvin Gaye

Wenn ich an meinem alten, von Würmern zerfressenen Klavier saß, beneidete ich keinen König um sein Glück.
Joseph Haydn

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky

Mich deucht, die Musik müsse vornehmlich das Herz rühren, und dahin bringt es ein Klavierspieler nie durch bloßes Poltern, Trommeln und Arpeggieren, wenigstens bei mir nicht.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Ein Piano ist harmlos - die Gefahr droht vom Pianisten.
Robert Lembke

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.
Elton John

Bei einem verstimmten Pianisten ist jedes Klavier entschuldigt.
KarlHeinz Karius

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

Manche Klavier spielende Frau wäre ein Engel, wenn sie dahein keinen Flügel hätten.
Max Pallenberg

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
Steve Harvey

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

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