“If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.”
“I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.”
“They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things.”
“Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!”
“I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.”
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”