Piano Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

  Sara Bareilles

  Frustrated, Firsts, Get Up

  Source: www.elle.com

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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'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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• 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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• '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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Writing, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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• 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 don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Player, Piano Music, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

  Elton John

  Feet, Nine, Kind

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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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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• Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

  Nina Simone

  Mother, Play, Three

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• The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

  Nils Frahm

  Careers, Trying, Watches

  "Cillian Murphy vs. Nils Frahm". Interview with Nils Frahm, www.undertheradarmag.com. January 17, 2014.

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• My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

  Christian Louboutin

  Keys, Black, Sound

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• Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

  Jack Kornfield

  Perseverance, Play, Skills

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• To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Fall, Unrequited Love

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• I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.

  Lunice

  Play, Used, Beats

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!

  Ray Brown

  Mean, Player, Band

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• When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

  Roy Ayers

  Track, Musician, Used

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