Piano Quotes - Page 11

• The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Opportunity, Thinking, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

  Max Tundra

  House, Playing Piano

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

  Victoria Legrand

  Makeup, Said, Instruments

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

  Victoria Legrand

  Children, Voice, Starting Over

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Class, Play

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Trying, Bunch

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

  Jude Law

  Play, Giving, Needs

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

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• I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Nice, Sound, Doe

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.

  Daniel Powter

  Wall, Play, Messed Up

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Song, Unique, Able

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

  Tod Machover

  Teenager, Rocks, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

  Conrad Aiken

  Play, Two, Mad

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• 'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!

  Ruby Wax

  Drama, Trying, Green

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• I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

  Thomston

  Couple, Owl, Nocturnal

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• My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.

  Thomston

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.

  Idara Victor

  Growing Up, Years, Play

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• I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

  Sharon Jones

  Teaching, Play, Voice

  "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.

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• Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Teacher, Parent

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.

  Jillian Hervey

  Age, Violin, Quitting

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.

  Suzanne Ciani

  Thinking, Long, Sunrise

  "Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed". Interview with Danny Riley, thequietus.com. September 13, 2016.

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• The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

  Frank Zappa

  Lying, Soul, Giants

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• In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.

  Angel Olsen

  Running, Home, Writing

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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• I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Party, School, College

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

  Yoshiki

  Writing, Government, Japan

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.

  Eric Benet

  Moving, Thinking, Guitar

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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