Piano Keys Quotes

• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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

  Tom Lehrer

  Life, Music, Play

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• 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

  Keys, Piano, Trying

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

  Maria Cristina Mena

  Inspirational, Black And White, Color

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• Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Inspirational, Music, Jazz And Life

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

  Alicia Keys

  Music, Mother, Piano

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg", www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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• PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Music, Keys

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Sleeping Beauty, Awake

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

  Alicia Keys

  Music, Keys, Play

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• The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Keys

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Piano, Ribs

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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• One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Keys, Piano

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• I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?

  Dolora Zajick

  Teacher, Simple, Keys

  "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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• very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Keys, Piano, Teeth

  Cynthia Ozick (2009). “Dictation: A Quartet”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Discovery, Piano

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• Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.

  Cassandra Clare

  Keys, Hands, Piano

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• Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Keys, Blood

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.58, Bantam

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• Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Keys, Piano

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Piano, Ribs

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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