Piano Quotes - Page 15

• The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

  Jane Campion

  Struggle, Writing, Stories

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

  Michael Cera

  Play, Goes On

  Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Writing, Artist, Guitar

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• I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Kids, Play

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• I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

  William Hague

  Writing, Things I Love, Gave Up

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• Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Brother, House, Kind

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• And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

  Caroline Corr

  Player, Band, Littles

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

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• From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Play, Trying

  Marvin Hamlisch (1992). “The Way I was”, Scribner

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• A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

  Caroline Corr

  Song, Guitar, Done

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

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• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Book, Writing

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

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• I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

  Jayne Meadows

  Writing, Play

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• I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

  Keith Jarrett

  Language, Speak, Grew

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• I'm not a great piano player.

  Norah Jones

  Player

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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  Rachel Kushner

  Romantic Music, Orchestra, Flutes

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• I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

  John Mahoney

  Father, Home, Men

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• I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

  Geddy Lee

  Practice, Discipline, Schedules

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• Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

  Paul McCartney

  Rock And Roll, Ivory, Perfect

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• The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

  Billy Joel

  Beer, Men, Rock And Roll

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• I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Mom, Years, Lessons

  "Kristin Kreuk, Video-Game Vixen". Parade Interview, parade.com. February 26, 2009.

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• Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

  Marian McPartland

  Jobs, Years, Good Job

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Hands, Looks

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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Song, Auditions, Has Beens

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• I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

  Frank Ocean

  Play, Enjoy

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

  Aaron Levie

  Weekend, Night, Play

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• I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Musical, Singing, Music Love

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