Piano Quotes - Page 13

• I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fun, Guitar, Play

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 04, 2012

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• I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

  Carole King

  Moving, Guitar, Get Better

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• Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

  Kaci Brown

  Guitar, Hands, Use

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 15, 2006.

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• The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

  Richard Clayderman

  Father, Black And White, Keys

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• Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Long, Different, Lasts

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• So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.

  Vienna Teng

  Climbing, House, Parent

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• You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Swim, Benches

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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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• The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

  Howard Shore

  Pieces, Orchestra, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

  Allen Toussaint

  Forte, Performers, Session

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

  Placido Domingo

  Reduction, Score

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• In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

  Norah Jones

  Weekend, College, Best Practices

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• My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

  Rashida Jones

  Reading, Games, Crosswords

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

  Brian Wilson

  Feet

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• I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

  Brian Wilson

  Play, Piano Playing, Playing Music

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• I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

  Norman Wisdom

  Play, Horny, Saxophone

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

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• Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.

  Martin Filler

  Cutting, Museums, Government

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• When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Stools, Moved

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.255, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To master the piano is to master the universe.

  Russell Sherman

  Music, Masters, Universe

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• I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Guitar, Favour

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• It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

  Rene Coty

  Tunes, Pity, Pianist

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• This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.

  Joe Lovano

  Beautiful, Passion, Sky

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• I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

  Kevin Kline

  Students, Mediocre, I Realized

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• For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

  Matt Damon

  Song, Play

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• I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

  Peter Lawford

  Nice, Boys, Drawing

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