Piano Quotes

• 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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• Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

  Joan Didion

  Play, Ears, Grammar

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• When you play, never mind who listens to you.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Play, Mind

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

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• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

  Joan Didion

  Music, Power, English Grammar

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 16, 2011

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• The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

  Thelonious Monk

  Notes, Pianist, Piano Teachers

  "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original". p. 444. Book by Robin Kelley, 2009.

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• Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Music, Prayer, Meditation

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Grandmother, Play

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• Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Girl, Smart, Play

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• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Music

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• I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

  Jamie Foxx

  Fun, Grandmother, College

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• Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Ani DiFranco

  Love, Music, Stories

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Acoustics, Mystery

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• When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

  Bob Hope

  Music, Play, Names

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• 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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• I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

  Duke Ellington

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

  Bob Newhart

  Funny, Music, Country

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• The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

  Al Capp

  Music, Keys, Poke

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• The piano has been drinking, not me.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Drinking, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking, Album: Small Change

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Feelings

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• In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

  Theodore E. Steinway

  Iron, May, Pounds

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• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Believe, Ideas

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• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Suffering

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  Jack Black

  Rocks, Years, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jan 04, 2014

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• My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.

  Frederic Chopin

  Dream, Country, People

  "Fryderyk Chopin, Korespondencja Fryderyka Chopina". Book by Bronisław Edward Sydow, (2 vols.), Vol. 1, p. 443, 1955.

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