"The piano has been drinking, not me."

"[T]he piano is the social instrument par excellence. It is drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, th…"

"As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran …"

"Hannibal Lecter: I prefer the sound and feel of the harpsichord. More alive, the music arrives like experience, sudde…"

"I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece."

"The object of the piano is to substitute one performer for a whole orchestra."

"I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They …"

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

"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why don't we?"

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes."