Piano Quotes - Page 12

• My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Parent, Church, Lessons

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Men, Wish

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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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• I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Pieces, Goes On, Lessons

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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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• I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Enjoy, Audience

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

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• What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

  Bill Gates

  Singing, Quality, Lectures

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• Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

  Michala Petri

  Violin, Recorders, Courses

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• They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

  Erykah Badu

  Home, Nursing, Elderly

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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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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• I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

  David Mamet

  Typewriters, Sound, Rhythm

  "Mamet Talk" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2008.

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• I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

  George Shearing

  Couple, Thinking, Giving

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• Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Pieces, Approach

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• Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

  Jools Holland

  Would Be, Disaster, Hold Me

  "'A labour of love'" by Jools Holland, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

  Drake Bell

  Morning, Writing, Bangs

  "Drake Bell Dishes On His New Album!". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2011.

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• The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

  Andrew W.K.

  Lessons, Influential, Piano Lesson

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

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• My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

  Johnny Griffin

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Guy, Mustache

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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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• My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So, before I officially got here, I was already surrounded by music. I also like the way my father explains it. When I was about 3-years old, in order to keep me quiet, my father would put me in the bassinet and either put on some music or play the piano. When he started playing, I got quiet and eventually went to sleep. He said by the time I turned 3, I just climbed up on the piano and started playing it with the attitude of I'm gonna play dis here piano.

  Cyrus Chestnut

  Mom, Attitude, Father

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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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• My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

  John Legend

  Mother, Years, Musical

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness out of me. But, sometimes I get a darker beat, with some dark piano or something... and then I'll do darker tracks.

  SonReal

  Dark, Track, Soul

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Voice, Guitar, Hands

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