36 Movie Quotes about Piano Playing (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about piano playing, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 Play it. -Not tonight, brother. -Play it! -Oh, sure, that's one of my favorites.

James Cagney as The Oklahoma Kid in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

12 Yes, well, this happens to be a nocturne. -A which? -You know, Frederic _ing Chopin.

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993)

13 Hit it! -What're you doing? -I'm trying to find middle C. This is nothing like my mother's Steinway.

Sean Astin as Michael "Mikey" Walsh in The Goonies

14 If she can stand it, I can. Play it.

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)

15 Now I got you. Now I got you! Try this one on your piano.

Harold Lloyd as Burleigh "Tiger" Sullivan in The Milky Way (1936)

16 Without me, you'd still just be another sad-eyed, piano-playing drunk. I brought you into this game. I let you keep up with me.

John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire

17 Joe never was much good on that piano, was he? -No, and you shooting them strings out didn't help none, neither.

Arthur Hunnicutt as Bull Harris; Robert Mitchum as Sheriff J.P. Harrah in El Dorado (1966)

18 Can you play the piano? I can. And sing at the same time. Listen.

Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

19 Ah, petite soeur! Tu es un véritable petit Chopin! -Tu trouves? -Mais certainement.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

20 Yeah, here's the baby. Rachmaninoff. Give her the full treatment. Come in like gangbusters... Good old Rachmaninoff. The second piano concerto. Never misses.

Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

36 Movie Quotes about Piano Playing (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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