Piano Quotes - Page 18

• Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

  Caroline Corr

  Mother, Jobs, Father

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

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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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• 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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• All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

  Dennis Wilson

  Needs, Bigs

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• I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

  Colin Greenwood

  Lessons, Next, Piano Lesson

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

  Maurice Gibb

  Opportunity, Play, Tvs

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

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• I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

  Carter Burwell

  Children, Kids, People

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• Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Sleep, Home, Play

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• I was a piano player before I was a poet.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Player, Poet

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• I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

  Teena Marie

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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• My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Play, Height, Guests

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Lessons, Composing, Piano Lesson

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• Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues far beyond the pale of the accepted definitions of keyboard competence. Whether on piano or organ, when you hear Bruce Katz you know it's him, unmistakably and uniquely.

  Larry Coryell

  Unique, Musical, Use

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• Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

  Violeta Parra

  Hate, Writing, Blow

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• I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

  Gordon Getty

  Paris, Bookstores, Language

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• Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.

  Wes Montgomery

  Block, Cat, Play

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• Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

  Alber Elbaz

  White, Black, Kind

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• The pedal is the soul of the piano.

  Anton Rubinstein

  Soul, Pedals

  Anton Rubinstein, Teresa Carreño (2013). “The Art of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

  David Lanz

  Player, Mirrors, Light

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• At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

  David Lanz

  Heart, Simple, Talking

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• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  Eric Butterworth

  Artist, Boys, Silver Platter

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• Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

  Luc Ferrari

  Teacher, Stupid, Dumb

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• He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

  Matthew Sweet

  Couple, Play, Two

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• Sing us a song you're the piano man.
  Sing us a song tonight.
  Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,
  And you've got us feeling all right.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Men, Feelings

  "The Piano Man" (song) (1973)

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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